wicket

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• The pitch.
• The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
• Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
• A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
• A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
• The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
• An angle bracket when used in HTML.
• A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vik. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.