wicket

Plural: wickets

Noun

• A small door, gate, or a set of stakes in cricket.
• cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket
• a small arch used as croquet equipment
• small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door)
• small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
• A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
• A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
• 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, 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.
• A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
• The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
• The period during which two batsmen bat together.
• The pitch.
• The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
• Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
• A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
• A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
• The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
• An angle bracket when used in HTML.
• A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.

Examples

• He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
• He kept the wicket.
• Playing WICKET allowed her to connect words across two premium squares.
• The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
• The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.

Synonyms

grille, hoop, lattice, wicket door, wicket gate