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wicket en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɪkət/ weak vowel merger
  • [ˈwɪkɪt] weak vowel distinction
  • [ˈwɪkət] weak vowel merger
  • /ˈwɪkɪt/ weak vowel distinction
  • (Australia) audio

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.

Meanings

  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. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 25:
    • 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, […] 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:
    • 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. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 182:
  2. 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. 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386
  3. (Canada, UK) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
    • 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. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
  4. a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
  5. 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.
  6. A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
    • He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
  7. The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
    • He kept the wicket.
  8. The period during which two batsmen bat together.
  9. The pitch.
  10. The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
    • The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
  11. (qualifier:croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
  12. A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
  13. (US, dialectal) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
    • make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit 1873, Andrew Leith Adams, Field and Forest Rambles:
  14. The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
  15. (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.
  16. A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
  17. (slang) A highly stylized, elongated signature tag that originated in Philadelphia during the early-to-mid 1970s.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
wickets Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

hit wicket · sticky wicket · wicket gate · round the wicket · fall of wicket · single wicket · wicketless · walking wicket · midwicket · wicket-keeping gloves · wicket maiden · mid-wicket · around the wicket · wicketkeeping · on a good wicket · take a wicket · single wicket cricket · wicket keeper · over the wicket · on a losing wicket · keep wicket · wicket taker · leg before wicket

Translations (49)

fi kulmasulku (Internet: angle bracket) · ru око́шечко (small window or other opening) · fi pesä (cricket: area around the stumps where the batsmen stand) · mi paitumu (cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit) · de Schlupftür (small door or gate) · fr guichet (service window) · mi wīkiti (cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit) · bg вратичка (small door or gate) · ru кали́тка (small door or gate) · cs dvířka (small door or gate) · ca portella (small door or gate) · fi keskialue (cricket: pitch) · mk вра́тичка (small door or gate) · bg прозорче (small window or other opening) · tr kuzguncuk (small window or other opening) · fi laavu (shelter made from tree boughs) · ru окно́ (service window) · fi veräjä (small door or gate) · fi hila (cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit) · gu વિકેટ (cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit) · fi sivuovi (small door or gate) · mk ши́бер (service window) · ar خَوْخَة (small door or gate) · bg шубер (service window) · de Türchen (small door or gate) · mk про́зорче (small window or other opening) · de Pförtchen (small door or gate) · cs vrátka (small door or gate) · fi palo (cricket: dismissal) · cs branka (cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit) · fi portti (croquet: small arch) · fi pikkuovi (small door or gate) · fi luukku (service window) · af paaltjies (cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit) · es ventanilla (small window or other opening) · da låge (small door or gate) · eo giĉeto (service window) · de Törchen (small door or gate) · ru воро́тца (croquet: small arch) · ru воро́тца (cricket: wooden structure at each end of the pit) · de Schalter (service window) · ota قوزغونجق (small window or other opening) · fr portillon (small door or gate) · fi aukko (small window or other opening) · de Fensterchen (small window or other opening) · fi luukku (small window or other opening) · gl portelo (small door or gate) · he פִּשְׁפָּשׁ (small door or gate) · ar خَوْخَة (small window or other opening)