wicket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English wiket, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French wiket, from Old East Old Norse víkjask (“to move oneself, move around”), reflexive of víkja, víkva, ýkva (“to yield, turn, move, go”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, bend, turn”). Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.
Inflected forms:
form: wickets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
pos: noun
examples: ...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.
He then pushed on at full speed, and at last got into the village; and just as they were on the point of catching hold of the horse, he sprung in through the farmer's gate, and the man slapt the wicket after him.
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, […]
gloss: A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
pos: noun
examples: As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.
gloss: A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
examples: 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.
gloss: a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.
gloss: A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
pos: noun
examples: He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
gloss: The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
pos: noun
examples: He kept the wicket.
gloss: The period during which two batsmen bat together.
pos: noun
gloss: The pitch.
pos: noun
gloss: The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
pos: noun
examples: The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
gloss: Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
pos: noun
gloss: A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
pos: noun
gloss: A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
examples: make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit
gloss: The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
pos: noun
gloss: An angle bracket when used in HTML.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
informal
gloss: A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
pos: noun
Derived words: 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
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