Wicket (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a window or opening, often closed by a grating or the like, as in a door, or forming a place of communication in a ticket office, a teller's cage in a bank, etc.
  2. a hoop or arch.
  3. a turnstile in an entrance.
  4. a small door or gate, especially one beside, or forming part of, a larger one.
  5. a small gate by which a canal lock is emptied.
  6. a gate by which a flow of water is regulated, as to a waterwheel.
  7. Cricket.
    • either of the two frameworks, each consisting of three stumps with two bails in grooves across the tops, at which the bowler aims the ball.
    • the area between these frameworks; the playing field.
    • one batsman's turn at the wicket.
    • the period during which two players bat together.
    • a batsman's innings that is not completed or not begun.
Idioms
  1. to be at or have a disadvantage.
noun
  1. a small door or gate, esp one that is near to or part of a larger one
  2. a small window or opening in a door, esp one fitted with a grating or glass pane, used as a means of communication in a ticket office, bank, etc
  3. a small sluicegate, esp one in a canal lock gate or by a water wheel
  4. a croquet hoop
    • either of two constructions, placed 22 yards apart, consisting of three pointed stumps stuck parallel in the ground with two wooden bails resting on top, at which the batsman stands
    • the strip of ground between these
    • a batsman's turn at batting or the period during which two batsmen bat
    • the act or instance of a batsman being got out
  6. to act as a wicketkeeper
  7. in an awkward situation
Wicket (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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