Wicket

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small door or gate, especially one built into or near a larger one.
  • n. A small window or opening, often fitted with glass or a grating.
  • n. A sluice gate for regulating the amount of water in a millrace or canal or for emptying a lock.
  • n. Sports In cricket:
  • n. Sports Either of the two sets of three stumps, topped by bails, that forms the target of the bowler and is defended by the batsman.
  • n. Sports A batsman's innings, which may be terminated by the ball knocking the bails off the stumps.
  • n. Sports The termination of a batsman's innings.
  • n. Sports The period during which two batsmen are in together.
  • n. Sports See pitch2.
  • n. Games Any of the small arches, usually made of wire, through which players try to drive their ball in croquet.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one
  • n. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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
  • n. A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out
  • n. The period during which two batsmen bat together
  • n. The pitch
  • n. The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand
  • n. Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven
  • n. : A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
  • n. an angle bracket when used in HTML
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman.
  • n. A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated.
  • n.
  • n. A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top.
  • n. The ground on which the wickets are set.
  • n. A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.
  • n. The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A game, formerly played in parts of the United States, resembling primitive cricket.
  • n. A small gate or doorway, especially a small door or gate forming part of a larger one.
  • n. A hole through which to communicate, or to view what, passes without; a window, lookout, loophole, or the like.
  • n. A small gate by which the chamber of a canal-lock is emptied; also, a gate in the chute of a water-wheel, designed to regulate the amount of water passing to the wheel.
  • n. A half-high door.
  • n. A hole or opening.
  • n. In cricket:
  • n. The object at which the bowler aims, and before which, but a little on one side, the batsman stands. It consists of three stumps, having two bails lying in grooves along their tops. See cricket (with diagram).
  • n. A batsman's tenure of his wicket. If the batting side pass their opponents' full score with (say) six players to be put out, they are said to win “by six wickets”—a colloquial abbreviation for “with six wickets to go down.”
  • n. The ground on which the wickets are set: as, play was begun with an excellent wicket.
  • n. In coal-mining. See wicket-work.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a small arch used as croquet equipment
  • n. small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door)
  • n. cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket
  • n. small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
    • Equivalent
    wicket gate   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    croquet equipment    gate    cricket equipment    opening   
    Form
    sticky wicket    wicket gate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    cricket    ticket   
     
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