wicket
/ˈwɪkɪt/ · noun
Meaning
- A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
- 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.
- 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.
- A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
- The period during which two batsmen bat together.
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