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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wicket
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wicket gate
wicket keeper
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sticky
▪ When full-blown free trade eventually comes, the Windwards will be on a very sticky wicket.
▪ Her speech went as well as was possible, given that it was being made on the stickiest of sticky Parliamentary wickets.
■ NOUN
gate
▪ Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back on to the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall.
▪ The huddled figure shambled alongside the yew hedge towards the wicket gate.
▪ Cranston pulled at the bell and they were allowed through a wicket gate built into the ponderous door.
▪ He went up through the wicket gate and into the cemetery, a quiet, surprisingly well-kept plot.
▪ Outside the wicket gate he paused for a moment before setting off along the Backs in the direction of the town centre.
▪ The Co-operative also had double doors with a wicket gate leading into a cobbled yard.
▪ We brought her in, four of us carrying her on a wicket gate.
▪ But the rector was opening the wicket gate at the side of the public house, and vanished from sight.
stand
▪ Border shared in a fourth wicket stand of 147 in 35 overs with Damien Martyn, who continued his impressive run.
▪ The pair shared a second wicket stand of 215 in 51 overs.
▪ Holding, though, stood firm, his share of an unbeaten last wicket stand being 12.
test
▪ And he is a marginally better bowler than Hick even if he's still seeking his first Test wicket.
▪ Kapil hopes to go on to break Hadlee's overall record of 431 Test wickets.
▪ Warne's figures 17 Test wickets at 15 runs apiece suggest there was only one winner.
▪ Willis got him in the end, his last Test wicket.
▪ But 400 Test wickets in the next dozen years?
▪ First to go was Sidhu, another fine gully catch by Jones providing his fellow-Victorian Reiffel with his first Test wicket.
■ VERB
claim
▪ Allan Warners spell claimed two quick wickets.
▪ He had a lean time, claiming only two wickets altogether in Brisbane and the two Sydney Tests.
keep
▪ Cracked willow pattern contains the lobster, scraping its claws like some one crouched to keep wicket at Lord's.
lose
▪ Offerton lost eight wickets in reaching the target.
▪ It was the first time they had lost by 10 wickets in 325 limited-over internationals.
▪ Peverel lost their last six wickets for 26 and finished 39 short.
▪ Stuart Low dominated the Queensland innings with 142 as they lost their last six wickets for only 52.
▪ The scores were level, but Tattenhall lost fewer wickets.
▪ But Bangor recovered from 42-4 to triumph without losing another wicket.
▪ Mobberley lost only four wickets and needed only 31 overs to score the runs on a low-scoring weekend.
▪ The Worcestershire innings has just begun, and they've already lost one wicket with one run on the board.
take
▪ He took nine wickets in an innings on seven occasions.
▪ Read in studio Cricket ... Gloucestershire fast bowler Courtney Walsh has taken his fiftieth wicket of the season.
▪ The little magician did take seven wickets but he had to bowl 97 overs to get them.
▪ Against Auckland at Eden Park he took five wickets in each innings and scored 110 in his first appearance at the crease.
▪ In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42.
▪ Bootle made just 112, with Botham taking three wickets and Mike Mannion scoring 37.
▪ Crawford retired from first-class cricket two years later, having scored over 7000 runs and taken more than 600 wickets in his career.
▪ In one spell in the last session the Sri Lankans took three wickets for eight runs.
win
▪ Staffordshire won by four wickets with a ball to spare.
▪ Thornaby won by eight wickets at Stockton.
▪ They suffered a rare defeat at the hands of Hampshire, who won with two wickets to spare.
▪ Redcar won by ten wickets in just 20 overs.
▪ Crowe, with an unbeaten and classy 47, was Man of the Match as the Kiwis won by six wickets.
▪ Hetton are only a point off the pacemakers after they won by six wickets Langley.
▪ This was his second century in seven days but the game was won by five wickets at Bishop.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on a sticky wicket
keep goal/wicket
▪ Cracked willow pattern contains the lobster, scraping its claws like some one crouched to keep wicket at Lord's.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the Sri Lankan wickets were taken by Yorkshiremen.
▪ And the one wicket he didn't take?
▪ Boughton Hall closed the gap with an eight wicket triumph at Huyton.
▪ His 62 wickets at 7.28 put him top of the Minor County averages.
▪ Richard Illingworth chipped in with the next wicket - Stephenson trapped leg before sweeping.
▪ Such grabbed two wickets in Lancashire's second innings to justify a bold declaration by Graham Gooch.
▪ The opposition quickly lost four wickets with only eight runs on the board but fading light saved them from defeat.
▪ The pair shared a second wicket stand of 215 in 51 overs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wicket

Wicket \Wick"et\, n. [OE. wiket, OF. wiket, guichet, F. quichet; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. v?k a small creek, inlet, bay, vik a corner.]

  1. 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. ``Heaven's wicket.''
    --Milton.

    And so went to the high street, . . . and came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast closed.
    --Ld. Berners.

    The wicket, often opened, knew the key.
    --Dryden.

  2. 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.

  3. (Cricket)

    1. 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.

    2. The ground on which the wickets are set.

  4. A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc. [Local, U. S.]
    --Bartlett.

  5. (Mining) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
    --Raymond.

    Wicket door, Wicket gate, a small door or gate; a wicket. See def. 1, above.
    --Bunyan.

    Wicket keeper (Cricket), the player who stands behind the wicket to catch the balls and endeavor to put the batsman out.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wicket

early 13c., "small door or gate," especially one forming part of a larger one, from Anglo-French wiket, Old North French wiket (Old French guichet, Norman viquet) "small door, wicket, wicket gate," probably from Proto-Germanic *wik- (cognates: Old Norse vik "nook," Old English wican "to give way, yield"), from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (see weak). The notion is of "something that turns." Cricket sense of "set of three sticks defended by the batsman" is recorded from 1733; hence many figurative phrases in British English.

Wiktionary
wicket

n. 1 A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one. 2 A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating. 3 (context British English) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a (w: ticket barrier) at a rail station. 4 (context cricket English) 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. 5 (context cricket English) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out. 6 (context cricket English) The period during which two batsmen bat together. 7 (context cricket English) The pitch. 8 (context cricket English) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand. 9 (context croquet English) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven. 10 (context skiing snowboarding English) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to. 11 (context US dialect English) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen. 12 (context mining English) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working. 13 (context Internet informal English) An angle bracket when used in HTML.

WordNet
wicket
  1. n. cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket

  2. a small arch used as croquet equipment [syn: hoop]

  3. small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) [syn: wicket door, wicket gate]

  4. small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted [syn: lattice, grille]

Wikipedia
Wicket

In the sport of cricket, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The wicket is guarded by a batsman who, with his bat, attempts to prevent the ball from hitting the wicket. The origin of the word is from wicket gate, a small gate. Historically, cricket wickets had only two stumps and one bail and looked like a gate. The third (middle) stump was introduced in 1775.

Through metonymic usage, the dismissal of a batsman is the taking of a wicket, and the cricket pitch is sometimes called the wicket.

Wicket (disambiguation)

A wicket is a term used in the sport of cricket with several related meanings.

It also has some non-cricket meanings:

  • " Sticky Wicket", a M*A*S*H episode
  • Mrs. Wicket, from Mr. Bean
  • Wicket (retail); in banking, the place where a customer performs a transaction with a bank teller
  • In croquet, one of the hoops through which the balls must pass
  • Apache Wicket, a web application framework
  • Wicket W. Warrick, an Ewok in the Star Wars universe
  • Wicket gate, a type of door
  • Wicket (ski), a wire loop which attaches a ski pass to a skier
  • In HTML, an obsolete reference to one of the angle brackets < > surrounding a tag

Usage examples of "wicket".

There would only be the skipper up there, unless Bittle or Bloem or perhaps the Tiger himself happened to have gone up to watch the loading from that point, and even against those odds the girl felt capable of keeping her wicket up, if she could only find a weapon.

As he unclosed the wicket, at its very entrance, standing so that in spite of every caution a full view of Monina was at once afforded, stood a young man, whose countenance bespoke him to be ever on the alert for gamesome tricks, or worse mischief.

He passed quickly through what Jack called the rose-garden - lucus a non lucendo - through the shrubbery to the edge of the hill and there below him on a broad meadow was a game of cricket all laid out, the fielders in their places, keenly attentive to the bowler as he went through his motions, the sound of the stroke again, the batsmen twinkling between the wickets, fielders darting for the ball, tossing it in, and then the whole pattern taking shape again, a formal dance, white shirts on the green.

And Bertuccio, feeling in his pocket, signed to a keeper whom he saw through the window of the wicket.

Through her sick heart rushed the realization, that if she merely had stood before that wicket and asked one question, she would have known that all those bitter years of skimping for Elnora and herself had been unnecessary.

Tom was on the lawn, whooping and knocking croquet balls through a set of wickets.

Vnto which inglomerated and winding heape of bowelles, there was a conuenient comming vnto and entrance in: with small loope-holes and wickets in sundry places diuersly disposed, yeelding thorough them a sufficient light to beholde the seuerall partes of the artificiall anothomie, not wanting any member that is found in a naturall body.

Stiffly she bent to unhook the pedometer, not broken, and showed it at the wicket.

I had scarse spoken these words, when he tooke me by the hand and brought mee to a certaine house, the gate whereof was closed fast, so that I went through the wicket, then he brought me into a chamber somewhat darke, and shewed me a Matron cloathed in mourning vesture, and weeping in lamentable wise.

There I hauing small delight to make anie long staie, I intended to take an vnknowne way further in, which my vndertaken course, I espied a light whiche so long I had wished for, comming in at a litle wicket as small as I could see.

Ilna slid the drawbolt open, but the sagging frame kept her from pushing the wicket open.

The Shadow performed a quick wheel to the front hallway, knowing that Gypper might open the wicket and shove a gun through.

You score points by hitting your ball through a course of six wickets twice, the four outside hoops, the center hoops, then back again in the opposite direction.

They came within one out of it last yearat Shea Stadium this was, against the Metsand then this guy named Bill Buckner who was playing first base let an easy grounder get through his wickets.

There were fistfights in the hydrangea, orgasms among the croquet wickets.