Wicket
['wɪkɪt]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Pearl--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checked by Abby
Definition
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.
Typist: Lucinda
Examples
- A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Looking back as I turned into the front garden, I saw Mr. Murdstone leaning against the wicket of the churchyard, and Mr. Quinion talking to him. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Mr. Luffey retired a few paces behind the wicket of the passive Podder, and applied the ball to his right eye for several seconds. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She skirted the bank and went round to the wicket before the house, where she stood motionless, looking at the scene. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Both he and I had our backs towards the path leading up the field to the wicket. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The satellite removed his arm and opened the wicket, and Mr Julius Handford went out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Again a whitish object gleamed before me: it was a gate--a wicket; it moved on its hinges as I touched it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Caroline looked at the wicket-gate, beside which holly-oaks spired up tall. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The turnkey laughed, and gave us good day, and stood laughing at us over the spikes of the wicket when we descended the steps into the street. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Whatever his jailers considered that he needed was conveyed to his cell by night through a wicket. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I looked back, and saw that she had closed the door before I had opened the wicket by the side of the carriage gates. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had already withdrawn his eye from the Peri, and was looking at a humble tuft of daisies which grew by the wicket. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Down came the wicket again; and Dobbin started up. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The ghosts that vanished when the wicket closed. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The umpires were stationed behind the wickets; the scorers were prepared to notch the runs; a breathless silence ensued. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was not far to Longmeadow, but the tent was pitched and the wickets down by the time they arrived. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The wickets were pitched, and so were a couple of marquees for the rest and refreshment of the contending parties. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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