ˈwikə̇t, usu -ə̇d.+V noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English wiket, from Old North French, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch wiket, winket wicket, wiken to yield, give way, Old English wīcan — more at weak
1. : a small gate or door ; especially : one forming part of or placed near a larger gate or door
2. : an opening that resembles a window ; especially : a grilled or grated window (as at a ticket office, cashier's or teller's desk)
3.
a. : a small gate for emptying the chamber of a canal lock or regulating the amount of water passing through a channel (as to a waterwheel)
b. : the entrance door to a kiln
c. : any gate of a shutter dam
d. : a very wide stall or heading used with very wide pillars in the wicketwork system of coal mining in North Wales
4.
a. : either of the two frameworks at which the ball is bowled in cricket consisting of three stumps stuck close together in the ground and surmounted with two bails placed end to end in grooves on the top
b. : stump 7a
c. : a rectangular area of a cricket field with a long dimension of 22 yards bounded by the two bowling creases and a width of 10 feet — called also pitch
a fast wicket
a bowler's wicket
d.
(1) : the period of play from the commencement of a batsman's innings to his dismissal
the fifth wicket added only 17 runs
(2) : the part of this period when two batsmen are together
a profitable first- wicket partnership
e. : one innings by a batsman that is not completed or not begun
a team wins by 4 wickets when with two not-out players batting and 3 men yet to go in it surpasses the opposing team's total score
f. : dismissal of a batsman
the bowler worked hard for his wickets
the bowler captured 7 wickets in one innings
5. : an arch or hoop in croquet
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- on a bad wicket
- on a good wicket