wicket

Meaning

1. A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
2. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
3. (British, Canada) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
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.
6. A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
7. The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
8. The period during which two batsmen bat together.
9. The pitch.
10. The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
11. 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.
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.

Synonyms

wicket gate

wicket door

lattice

hoop

gate

grille

window

🪟

box office

counter

hatch

office

🏢

ticket office

ticket window

porthole

sight

sluice gate

ticket barrier

peep door

ticket gate

valve

jalousie

observation hole

grid

glory-hole

sightglass

sluice door

observation port

viewing port

sight window

sighting slit

water shutter

eye split

observing aperture

observation door

locker

prothole

peep hole

Translations

guichet

portillon

postigo

portillo

θυρίδα

winket

sportello

🚪

Schalterfenster

Schalter

loket

Hintertor

portella

Wicket

Bahnhofssperre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈwɪkɪt/

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vík. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

Sentences

His only wicket of the match was that of Mark Taylor .

He took South Africa's first Test wicket after they were re-admitted to international cricket .