What does "wicket" mean?
A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
Wicket
/ˈwɪkɪt/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- Grammar: wicket is listed as noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: access, angle bracket, bay, bay window.
- Useful contrasts: not out, safe, solid barrier.
- Usage evidence: A wicket is a small door or gate.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
"...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."
- 2 small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted wordnet
- 3 A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
"As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket."
- 4 small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) wordnet
- 5 A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller British, Canada
"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."
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- 6 a small arch used as croquet equipment wordnet
- 7 a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
- 8 cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket wordnet
- 9 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.
"The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started."
- 10 A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
"He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84."
- 11 The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
"He kept the wicket."
- 12 The period during which two batsmen bat together.
- 13 The pitch.
- 14 The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
"The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket."
- 15 Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
- 16 A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
- 17 A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen. US, dialectal
"make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit"
- 18 The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
- 19 An angle bracket when used in HTML. Internet, informal
- 20 A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
Synonyms
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Example
"A wicket is a small door or gate."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "wicket"?
Common synonyms include: access, angle bracket, bay, bay window, bow window, casement.
How do you use "wicket" in a sentence?
A wicket is a small door or gate.
How do you pronounce "wicket"?
Pronounced /ˈwɪkɪt/.
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.