wicket
A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger oneA small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
» A small wicket-gate opened upon a footpath that wound through some shrubbery to the door.
Маленька хвіртка відкрилася понад стежкою що вилася поміж кущів до самих дверей.
Meaning
17 sensesA small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
Türchen, Törchen, Pförtchen
кали́ткаkalítka
small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door)
A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
Fensterchen
око́шечкоokóšečko
small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
(Canada, UK)A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
Schalter
окно́oknó
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.
The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.
воро́тцаvorótca
A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
He kept the wicket.
The period during which two batsmen bat together.
The pitch.
The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
воро́тцаvorótca
A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
Examples
3 sentencesA small wicket-gate opened upon a footpath that wound through some shrubbery to the door.
Маленька хвіртка відкрилася понад стежкою що вилася поміж кущів до самих дверей. — pinaxe
A wicket is a small door or gate.
Tom Jackson took six wickets in the second inning.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English wiket, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French wiket, from Old EastFrom 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.
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Forms
plural: wicketsSynonyms
5 synonyms- small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted:latticegrille
- small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door):wicket doorwicket gate
- a small arch used as croquet equipment:hoop