north. dial. Also -it. [var. of CRICKET.]
1. = CRICKET, a low stool (called in Scotl. a crackey-stool).
1635. Vestry Bks. (Surtees), 301. Maiking a cracket to kneall on. Ibid. (1665), 332. For a crackett for the reading pew, 1s.
1743–4. Mrs. Delany, Life & Corr. (1861), II. 258–9. You desired me … to send you a pattern for crackets.
1834. Bishoprick Garland, 54. He sits on his cracket.
1889. Archæol. Æliana, N. S. XIII. 311. A third [cockpit] … where chairs and tables, stools and crackits … were regularly fought for.
2. = CRICKET, an insect.
1803. R. Anderson, Cumberld. Ball., 69. The crackets were chirping on the hearth.
