Wicket

['wɪkɪt]

解释:

(noun.) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted.

(noun.) small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door).

(noun.) a small arch used as croquet equipment.

(noun.) cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket.

编辑:珀尔--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.

(n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.

(n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.

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解释:

n. a small gate: one of three upright rods bowled at in cricket: a batsman's stay at the wicket: the ground where the wickets are placed.—ns. Wick′et-door -gate a wicket; Wick′et-keep′er in cricket the fieldsman who stands immediately behind the wicket.

校对:露辛达