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wicket

noun
/ˈwɪkɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English wiket, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French wiket, from Old East Old Norse víkjask (“to move oneself, move around”), reflexive of víkja, víkva, ýkva (“to yield, turn, move, go”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, bend, turn”). Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

  1. derived from *wīkwaną✻ — “to yield, bend, turn”
  2. derived from víkjask — “to move oneself, move around”
  3. derived from wiket
  4. inherited from wiket

Definitions

  1. A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.

    • He then pushed on at full speed, and at last got into the village; and just as they were on the point of catching hold of the horse, he sprung in through the farmer's gate, and the man slapt the wicket after him.
    • And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […]

  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. A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions…

    A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller

  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

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

    2. One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical…

      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.

    3. A dismissal

      A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.

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

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

      • He kept the wicket.

    5. The period during which two batsmen bat together.

    6. The pitch.

    7. The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.

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

    8. Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.

    9. A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.

    10. A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.

      • make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit

    11. The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.

    12. An angle bracket when used in HTML.

    13. A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at wicket. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at wicket. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at wicket

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA