crease

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A line made by pressing, folding, or wrinkling.
• noun In hockey, an area marked in front of the goal in which an offensive player can score a goal only if the puck reaches the area before the player does.
• noun In lacrosse, the circle marked around the goal into which offensive players cannot enter.
• noun One of the lines in cricket marking off the positions of the bowler and batter or the space between two of these lines.
• intransitive verb To make a pressed, folded, or wrinkled line in.
• intransitive verb To graze or wound superficially with a bullet.
• intransitive verb To become wrinkled.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make a line or long thin mark in, as by folding, doubling, or indenting.
• To indent, as a cartridge-case, for the purpose of confining the charge; crimp.
• In hunting, to wound by a shot which flattens the upper vertebræ, or cuts the muscles of the neck, and stuns, but does not kill.
• noun A line or long thin mark made by folding or doubling; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• noun Specifically, one of certain lines used in the game of cricket.
• noun A split or rent.
• noun A curved tile.
• noun The top of a horse's neck.
• noun Increase; profit.
• To increase; grow.
• To increase; augment.
• noun A less common spelling of creese.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To make a crease or mark in, as by folding or doubling.
• noun A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• noun (Cricket) One of the lines serving to define the limits of the bowler and the striker.
• noun (Lacrosse) The combination of four lines forming a rectangle inclosing either goal, or the inclosed space itself, within which no attacking player is allowed unless the ball is there; -- called also goal crease.
• noun (Cricket) a line extending three feet four inches on each side of the central strings at right angles to the line between the wickets.
• noun (Cricket) a short line at each end of the bowling crease and at right angles to it, extending toward the bowler.
• noun (Cricket) , a line drawn in front of the wicket, four feet distant from it, parallel to the bowling crease and at least as long as the latter.
• noun See creese.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• noun cricket One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
• noun lacrosse The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• noun ice hockey The goal crease; an area in front of each goal, surrounded by thin red lines and filled in with light blue.
• verb transitive To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• verb transitive To lightly bloody; to graze.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
• verb make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in
• noun a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
• noun an angular or rounded shape made by folding
• verb make wrinkled or creased
• noun a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
• verb scrape gently