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wicket

noun

A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.

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Word length
6
Starts with
W
Ends with
T
Contains
IC
Scrabble score
15
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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Pronunciation

/ˈwɪkɪt/ /ˈwɪkɪt/

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Definitions

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; a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.

  4. 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.

  5. A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.

  6. The period during which two batsmen bat together.

  7. The pitch.

  8. The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.

  9. Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.

  10. A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.

  11. A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.

  12. The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.

  13. An angle bracket when used in HTML.

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