Definition of "wicket" in Anglais

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.

   • As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.

3. (British, Canada) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller

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

5. (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.

   • The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.

6. (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.

   • He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.

7. The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.

   • He kept the wicket.

8. (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.

9. (cricket) The pitch.

10. (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.

    • The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.

11. (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.

12. (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.

13. (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.

14. (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.

15. (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.

16. (veterinary) A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.