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Wicket door

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.

WordNet
wicket door

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

Usage examples of "wicket door".

He let them out by the wicket door while the brothers were at Matins.

Pelias and Agenor returned to the wicket door in an instant and eyed my bloody figure.

He lifted the bar of the wicket door and slipped through, and began to make his way by touch of the wall round the bishop's garden enclosure.

He lifted the bar of the wicket door and slipped through, and began to make his way by touch of the wall round the bishop’.

He lifted the bar of the wicket door and slipped through, and began to make his way by touch of the wall round the bishops garden enclosure.

A few minutes later the black slave let them through the wicket door.

My luck was in, for the little wicket door in the centre yielded to the touch of my hand, revealing a dark void full of vague shadows.

He looked round for Major Golightly, found him by the wicket door, peering out into the courtyard, and gave him his orders: with the seamen they would make a rush for the brothel and the Marines would be left behind to keep an eye on the freed slaves and to protect them from any marauding Saracens.

He lifted his hand to hammer again just as the wicket door opened to reveal a pale and anxious young man who flinched away from Sharpe's fist.