wicket
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Etymology [edit]
From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French viquet, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same source through Old French.
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wicket (plural wickets)
- A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one
- A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:
- As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:
- (UK) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a ticket barrier at a rail station.
- (cricket) 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
- (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out
- (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together
- (cricket) The pitch
- (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand
- (Croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven
- (skiing, snowboarding): A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
- (Internet, informal) an angle bracket when used in HTML