wicket

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /ˈwɪkɪt/, [ˈwɪkɪt] (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈwɪkət/, [ˈwɪkət] Rhymes: -ɪkɪt Hyphenation: wick‧et === Noun === wicket (plural wickets) A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating. 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386: As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket. (UK, Canada) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc. (cricket) 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. (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out. The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling. (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together. (cricket) The pitch. (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand. (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven. (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to. (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen. (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working. (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML. (veterinary) A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References ===