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wick·et

(wĭk′ĭt)

1. A small door or gate, especially one built into or near a larger one.

2. A small window or opening, often fitted with glass or a grating.

3. A sluice gate for regulating the amount of water in a millrace or canal or for emptying a lock.

4. Sports In cricket:

a. Either of the two sets of three stumps, topped by bails, that forms the target of the bowler and is defended by the batsman.

b. A batsman's innings, which may be terminated by the ball knocking the bails off the stumps.

c. The termination of a batsman's innings.

d. The period during which two batsmen are in together.

e. See pitch².

5. Games Any of the small arches, usually made of wire, through which players try to drive their ball in croquet.

[Middle English, from Old North French wiket, nook, wicket; see weik- in Indo-European roots.]

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wicket

(ˈwɪkɪt)

1. (Building) a small door or gate, esp one that is near to or part of a larger one

2. (Building) US a small window or opening in a door, esp one fitted with a grating or glass pane, used as a means of communication in a ticket office, bank, etc

3. (Civil Engineering) a small sluicegate, esp one in a canal lock gate or by a water wheel

4. (Croquet) US a croquet hoop

5. (Cricket)

a. cricket either of two constructions, placed 22 yards apart, consisting of three pointed stumps stuck parallel in the ground with two wooden bails resting on top, at which the batsman stands

b. the strip of ground between these

c. a batsman's turn at batting or the period during which two batsmen bat: a third-wicket partnership.

d. the act or instance of a batsman being got out: the bowler took six wickets.

6. (Cricket) keep wicket to act as a wicketkeeper

7. on a sticky wicket informal in an awkward situation

[C18: from Old Northern French wiket; related to Old Norse vikja to move]

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wick•et

(ˈwɪk ɪt)

n.

1. a window or opening, often closed by a grating or the like, as in a door, or forming a place of communication in a ticket office, a teller's cage in a bank, etc.

2. a croquet hoop or arch.

3. a small door or gate, esp. one beside, or forming part of, a larger one.

4. a turnstile.

5. Cricket.

a. either of the two frameworks, each consisting of three stumps with two bails in grooves across the tops, at which the bowler aims the ball.

b. the area between the wickets; the playing field.

c. one batsman's turn at the wicket.

d. the period during which two players bat together.

e. a batsman's inning that is not completed or not begun.

[1200–50; Middle English wiket < Anglo-French; Old French guischet]

wicket

Three wooden stumps and two bails that rest on top of the stumps, 9 in wide, 2 ft 4 in high.

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Noun	1.	wicket - cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket cricket equipment - sports equipment used in playing cricket
	2.	wicket - a small arch used as croquet equipment hoop croquet equipment - sports equipment used in playing croquet
	3.	wicket - small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) wicket door, wicket gate gate - a movable barrier in a fence or wall
	4.	wicket - small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted grille, lattice opening - a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door" stump - (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket

Translations

رُقْعَة الأرْض بين مَجموعَة الأقْواسقَوْس صَغيرَه في لُعْبَة الكريكيت

buegærde

Schläger Spielfeld Tor

entrada terreno turno

guichet

krikettkapu

leiksvæîi milli marksúlnalota eins kylfings í krikketmarksúlur

porta portello sportello tiro lento un brutto guaio

varteliai

kriketa varti

bøyle

bránka

kriket çubukları arasındaki yerüç çubuktan oluşan kalevuruş sırası

一个回合的结束一局两座三柱门之间的场地板球三柱门槌球拱门

wicket

[ˈwɪkɪt]

A. N

1. (Cricket) (= stumps) → palos mpl; (= pitch) → terreno m; (= fallen wicket) → entrada f, turno m
to be on a sticky wicket → estar en un aprieto CRICKET

2. (also wicket gate) → postigo m, portillo m

B. CPD wicket keeper N (Cricket) → guardameta mf

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wicket

[ˈwɪkɪt] n (in cricket) (= set of sticks) → guichet m (= area) → espace compris entre les deux guichets
to take a wicket → éliminer un batteurwicket keeper wicket-keeper, wicketkeeper [ˈwɪkɪtkiːpə^r] n → gardien m de guichet

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wicket

→ Gatter nt; (for selling tickets) → Fenster nt

(Cricket) (= stumps: also wickets) → Wicket nt, → Pfostentor nt; (= pitch) → Spielbahn f; three wickets fell before lunch → es gab drei Wicketwürfe vor der Mittagspause; we won by four wickets → wir gewannen und hatten vier Schlagmänner noch nicht in Einsatz gehabt; to keep wicket → Torwächter sein ? sticky

(US: = croquet hoop) → Tor nt

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wicket

[ˈwɪkɪt] (Cricket) n → porta

wicket

(ˈwikit) noun

1. a hoop through which the balls are driven in the game of croquet or at which the ball is bowled in cricket.

2. the ground between two sets of these rods. The wicket has dried out well.

3. the ending of a batsman's period of batting. They scored fifty runs for (the loss of) one wicket.

ˈwicket-keeper noun

(in cricket) the fielder who stands immediately behind the wicket.

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Podder, two of the most renowned members of that most distinguished club, walked, bat in hand, to their respective wickets. Mr.

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Nine runs to make, and two wickets to go down: it is too much for human nerves.

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It was not that Raffles took many wickets for few runs; he was too fine a bowler to mind being hit; and time was short, and the wicket good.

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It was not far to Longmeadow, but the tent was pitched and the wickets down by the time they arrived.

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"No," answered the rabbit, "I'm merely the Keeper of the Wicket, and a person of little importance, although I try to do my duty.

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He hesitated, took up his position at the wicket, and then came to me manfully.

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They had emerged upon this road through a narrow barred wicket in a high wall a little lower down.

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Dolokhov, after Anatole entered, had remained at the wicket gate and was struggling with the yard porter who was trying to lock it.

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Oh, what larks!" Meanwhile the object of this hideous admiration approached the wicket, against which one of the keepers was leaning.

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"Madam," said Saint Peter, rising and approaching the wicket, "whence do you come?"

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I hid my eyes, and leant my head against the stone frame of my door; but soon a slight noise near the wicket which shut in my tiny garden from the meadow beyond it made me look up.

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"Ah, bah!" said D'Artagnan; "you have at some wicket of the Louvre a CONCIERGE who is devoted to you, and who, thanks to a password, would--"