wicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪkɪt/
rhymes: -ɪkɪt
Forms: form: wickets
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vík. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.
Senses: examples: text: ...and one, a cool, bold fellow, whom I know well, will unlock the town gate, and—for he has various talents—hopes, through his influence with a pretty daughter of one of the wardens, to leave unbarred a certain wicket in the postern on the seaward side.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 25:
text: And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […]
ref: 1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza IV, pages 46–47:
glosses: A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
examples: text: As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386
glosses: A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
examples: text: Watt climbed the stone steps and stood before the wicket, looking through its bars. He admired the permanent way, stretching away on either hand, in the moonlight, and the starlight, as far as the eye could reach, as far as Watt's eye could have reached, if it had been inside the station.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
glosses: a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
examples: text: The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
examples: text: He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
examples: text: He kept the wicket.
glosses: The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The period during which two batsmen bat together.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The pitch.
examples: text: The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
qualifier: croquet
glosses: Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
examples: text: make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit
ref: 1873, Andrew Leith Adams, Field and Forest Rambles:
glosses: A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
glosses: An angle bracket when used in HTML.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
Derived terms: around the wicket
fall of wicket
hit wicket
keep wicket
leg before wicket
mid-wicket
on a good wicket
on a losing wicket
over the wicket
round the wicket
single wicket
single wicket cricket
sticky wicket
take a wicket
walking wicket
wicket gate
wicket keeper
wicket-keeping gloves
wicket maiden
wicket taker