Noun: wicket
| Singular | wicket |
| Plural | wickets |
Sample Sentences
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...and one, a cool, bold fellow, whom I know well, will unlock the town gate, and—for he has various talents—hopes, through his influence with a pretty daughter of one of the wardens, to leave unbarred a certain wicket in the postern on the seaward side. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 25:]
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He then pushed on at full speed, and at last got into the village; and just as they were on the point of catching hold of the horse, he sprung in through the farmer's gate, and the man slapt the wicket after him. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 182:]
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And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […] [1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza IV, pages 46–47:]
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As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket. [1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386]
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Watt climbed the stone steps and stood before the wicket, looking through its bars. He admired the permanent way, stretching away on either hand, in the moonlight, and the starlight, as far as the eye could reach, as far as Watt's eye could have reached, if it had been inside the station. [1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:]
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The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.
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He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
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He kept the wicket.
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The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
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make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit [1873, Andrew Leith Adams, Field and Forest Rambles:]
Nouns inflected like wicket
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
wiket', French Nouns '
guichet'.
Verbs referencing "wicket"
French Nouns
guichet.