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Wicket   /wˈɪkət/  /hwˈɪkət/   Listen
noun
Wicket  n.  
1.
A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman. "Heaven's wicket." "And so went to the high street,... and came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast closed." "The wicket, often opened, knew the key."
2.
A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.
3.
(Cricket)
(a)
A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
(b)
The ground on which the wickets are set.
4.
A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, used by lumbermen, etc. (Local, U. S.)
5.
(Mining) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
Wicket door, Wicket gate, a small door or gate; a wicket. See def. 1, above.
Wicket keeper (Cricket), the player who stands behind the wicket to catch the balls and endeavor to put the batsman out.





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"Wicket" Quotes from Famous Books



... half an hour brought the Count and his companion to one of the two gates in the wall of the Ghetto or Jews' quarter of Rome. Monte-Cristo knocked at a wicket and a policeman immediately appeared. He was a young man and wore a military dress. His coat was buttoned to the throat, a yellow cord and tassel gracefully looped over the breast. His hands were encased in white cotton gloves, ...
— Monte-Cristo's Daughter • Edmund Flagg
... sent to us for Relief; was answered she had thought of doing soe, but was feared of making too free. After a lengthened Visitt, which seemed to relieve her Mind, and certaynlie relieved mine, I bade her Farewell, and at the Wicket met my Father coming up with a playn-favoured but scholarlike looking reverend Man. He sayd, "Moll, I could not think what had become of you." I answered, I hoped I had not kept him waiting for Dinner—poor Nell had entertayned me longer than I wisht, ...
— Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary • Anne Manning
... beauty and excelled her in elegance. Mujnun, in his sagacity, penetrated what was passing in the royal mind, and said: "It would behoove you, O king, to contemplate the charms of Laila through the wicket of a Mujnun's eye, in order that the miracle of such a spectacle might be illustrated to you. Thou canst have no fellow-feeling for my disorder; a companion to suit me must have the self-same malady, that I may sit by him the livelong day repeating ...
— Persian Literature, Volume 2, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous
... was nail studded, and furnished usually with an iron-grilled wicket, where at the sound of the bell of the visitor a panel slid back and a white-coiffed face appeared. This secluded quarter was not exclusively inhabited by these gentle women, for there were other dwellings for those that ...
— Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders • George Wharton Edwards
... the Carnival, showing us every Cremona as its own Paganini, we may, despite the conceits of speculative disbelief, hold that the mind is a dynamic personal entity. That thought is the very "latch string of a new world's wicket." ...
— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger


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