wicket
- Noun. A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.
- Noun. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
- Noun. (British) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a (w, ticket barrier) at a rail station.
- Noun. (cricket) 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.
- Noun. (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
- Noun. (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
- Noun. (cricket) The pitch.
- Noun. (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
- Noun. (''Croquet'') Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
- Noun. (context, skiing) : A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
- Noun. (Internet, informal) an angle bracket when used in HTML.
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