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 Definitions of wicket  [ˈwɪk ɪt]  

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Definition of 'wicket' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) wicket
a window or opening, often closed by a grating or the like, as in a door, or forming a place of communication in a ticket office, a teller's cage in a bank, etc.

2.  wicket
a croquet hoop or arch.

3.  wicket
a small door or gate, esp. one beside, or forming part of, a larger one.

4.  wicket
a turnstile.

5.  wicket
Cricket.

6.  wicket
either of the two frameworks, each consisting of three stumps with two bails in grooves across the tops, at which the bowler aims the ball.

7.  wicket
the area between the wickets; the playing field.

8.  wicket
one batsman's turn at the wicket.

9.  wicket
the period during which two players bat together.

10.  wicket
a batsman's inning that is not completed or not begun.

Etymology:  (1200–50; ME wiket < AF; OF guischet)

Definition of 'wicket' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) wicket
cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket

2. (noun) wicket, hoop
a small arch used as croquet equipment

3. (noun) wicket, wicket door, wicket gate
small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door)

4. (noun) wicket, lattice, grille
small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted


Definition of 'wicket' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) wicket
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

2. (noun) wicket
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. (noun) wicket
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

4. (noun) wicket
the ground on which the wickets are set

5. (noun) wicket
a place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc

6. (noun) wicket
the space between the pillars, in postand-stall working


Translation of 'wicket' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a hoop through which the balls are driven in the game of croquet or at which the ball is bowled in cricket.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: deurtjie Arabic flag Arabic: قَوْس صَغيرَه في لُعْبَة Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: крикет вратичка
Brazilian flag Brazilian: whicket Czech flag Czech: branka German flag German: das Tor
Danish flag Danish: bue; gærde Greek flag Greek: στεφάνη (π.χ. στο κροκέ) Spanish flag Spanish: palos
Estonian flag Estonian: värav Farsi flag Farsi: (دروازه هاى فلزى کوتاه که Finnish flag Finnish: hila
French flag French: guichet Hebrew flag Hebrew: שַעַר Hindi flag Hindi: विकेट
Croatian flag Croatian: vratašca Hungarian flag Hungarian: (krikett)kapu Indonesian flag Indonesian: gawang
Icelandic flag Icelandic: marksúlur Italian flag Italian: wicket Japanese flag Japanese: 三柱門
Korean flag Korean: 위켓, 삼주문 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: varteliai Latvian flag Latvian: kriketa vārti
Malay flag Malay: wiket Dutch flag Dutch: wicket Norwegian flag Norwegian: (krokket)bøyle
Polish flag Polish: bramka krykietowa !! adde Persian flag Persian: (دروازه هاى فلزى کوتاه که Pashto flag Pashto: كړ كۍ، دريچه، بارۍ (په لو
Portuguese flag Portuguese: whicket Russian flag Russian: воротца (в крикете) Slovak flag Slovak: bránka
Slovenian flag Slovenian: vratca pri kriketu Serbian flag Serbian: vratanca Swedish flag Swedish: båge, grind
Thai flag Thai: ห่วงบาสเกตบอล Turkish flag Turkish: üç çubuktan oluşan kale Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (槌球、板球)三柱門
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: ворітця Urdu flag Urdu: کرکٹ کی وکٹیں Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bộ ba thanh chắn trong cr
Chinese flag Chinese: (板球)三柱门,(槌球)拱门

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