wicket
/ˈwɪkɪt/
Dictionary
noun
- A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
- 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.
- 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.
- A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
- The period during which two batsmen bat together.
- The pitch.
- The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
- Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
- A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
- A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
- The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
- An angle bracket when used in HTML.
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