English Explanatory Dictionary

wicket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
  2. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
  3. A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
  4. a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
  5. 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.
  6. A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
  7. The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
  8. The period during which two batsmen bat together.
  9. The pitch.
  10. The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
  11. Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
  12. A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.

Pronunciation

/ˈwɪkɪt/ [ˈwɪkɪt] /ˈwɪkət/ [ˈwɪkət] en-au-wicket.ogg

Word forms

wicket wickets

Etymology

From Middle English wiket, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French wiket, from Old East Old Norse víkjask (“to move oneself, move around”), reflexive of víkja, víkva, ýkva (“to yield, turn, move, go”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, bend, turn”). Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

Derived words

around the wicket fall of wicket hit wicket keep wicket leg before wicket mid-wicket on a good wicket on a losing wicket over the wicket round the wicket single wicket single wicket cricket sticky wicket take a wicket walking wicket wicket gate wicket keeper wicket-keeping gloves wicket maiden wicket taker
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