Meaning of Wicket | Babel Free

Definitions

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. A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
   British, Canada
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. A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
    US, dialectal
14. The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
15. An angle bracket when used in HTML.
    Internet, informal
16. A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.

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Examples

“...and one, a cool, bold fellow, whom I know well, will unlock the town gate, and—for he has various talents—hopes, through his influence with a pretty daughter of one of the wardens, to leave unbarred a certain wicket in the postern on the seaward side.”

“And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […]”

“As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.”

“Watt climbed the stone steps and stood before the wicket, looking through its bars. He admired the permanent way, stretching away on either hand, in the moonlight, and the starlight, as far as the eye could reach, as far as Watt's eye could have reached, if it had been inside the station.”

“The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.”

“He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.”

“He kept the wicket.”

“The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.”

“make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit”

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