wicket

English

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Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈwɪkɪt/

  Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Noun

wicket (plural wickets)

1. A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one
2. 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.

3. (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.
4. (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
5. (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out
6. (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together
7. (cricket) The pitch
8. (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand
9. (Croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven
10. (skiing, snowboarding): A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
11. (Internet, informal) an angle bracket when used in HTML

Derived terms

• sticky wicket
• wicket gate