wicketn.

Brit.

/ˈwɪkɪt/, U.S.

/ˈwɪkᵻt/

Forms: [Middle English wicat], Middle English wykett(e, Middle English–1500s wyket, wiket, Middle English wikett, wekett, Middle English–1500s wykket(t, wycket, wickett, Middle English wickette, wekyt, ( wigate), Middle English–1500s weket, 1500s weiket, Middle English– wicket.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman = Old Northern French wiket (Norman viquet, Walloon wichet) = Old French (modern French) guichet; usually referred to the Germanic root appearing in Old Norse víkja to move, turn (Swedish vika, Danish vige); but the forms Old French guischet, wisket, Provençal guisquet indicate the possibility of another source.

a. A small door or gate made in, or placed beside, a large one, for ingress and egress when the large one is closed; also, any small gate for foot-passengers, as at the entrance of a field or other enclosure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > small or lesser

hatchOE

wicketa1300

wicket-gate1362

portal1706

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > small

wicketa1300

wicket-door1813

a1300 in E. M. Thompson Customary St. Augustine's, Canterbury (1904) II. 256 Servientes sacristiæ tenentur esse intro ad ‘Covrefou’;..tunc deferentur claves ad sacristam, tam ‘wicat’ quam magnæ portæ cimiterii.]

a1300 K. Horn (Cambr.) 1074 Horn gan to þe ȝate turne & þat wiket vnspurne.

a1366 Romaunt Rose 528 I fonde a wiket small, So shett that I ne myght In gon.

a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5545 In at a wicket he went.

a1483 in L. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 320 ij. keyys for þ^e wekett.

1485 in G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester (1892) 384 Super magnam portam et le Wigate ejusdem portæ.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxi. 462 Mawgys cam nere to the wycket of the gate.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxlvi. 546 He came to the abbey gate & callyd y^e porter,..he openyd the weket & beheld Huon,..& sayd ‘pylgryme, enter when you plese’. Then Huon enterid in at the weket.

1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 295 He tooke his leaue of hir, and went out at a little wicket into a narrowe by lane.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 484 Now Saint Peter at Heav'ns Wicket seems To wait them with his Keys.

1766 O. Goldsmith Ballad [the Hermit] in Vicar of Wakefield I. viii The wicket, opening with a latch, Received the harmless pair.

1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets ii. 70 You see a little..old man by a wood-side opening a wicket.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. x. 265 He who would thrive at court must know the private wickets and concealed stair-cases.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xv. 147 A..boy came out of a sort of office, and looked at us over a spiked wicket.

1899 E. Gosse Life J. Donne I. 92 The gates of the house were shut upon the dignified envoys, but, after some stay,..they were let in by the wicket.

b. figurative or in figurative context.

ΚΠ

a1400 Prymer (1895) 12 Thou art wiket of þe hiȝ king, & þe greet ȝate of liȝt þat schyneþ briȝt.

c1400 26 Pol. Poems xxii. 4 Þou..wan in at þe wyket of synne.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMvii Stryue to entre by the straite wicket.

1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 30 With hir that will clicket, make daunger to cope, least happily hir wicket [i.e. mouth] be easy to ope.

1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 107 Seing nothing is room'd in our judgment and apprehension, but what first entred by the wicket of sense.

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iii. i. 22 Thou art the Wicket to thy Mistresses Gate, to be opened for all Comers.

a1870 D. G. Rossetti Love's Nocturn in Poems v At death's wicket.

†2. A small opening, esp. one through which to look out or communicate with the outside; a loophole, grill, or the like. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > small opening for communication

wicket1296

locutorya1535

grate1590

grille1686

guichet1839

1296 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/20) m. 4 dorso In .xxv. anulis ad Hecch', tribus paribus gemell ad Wykett' Bargie, xij Keuillis ferri ad Castrum .vij. d.

c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4362 Ayenst the toure A postern ther is,..There is right A privey wiket; Draw we thidre..That our frendes may se vs within.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 527/2 Wykett, or lytylle wyndowe, fenestra.

1448 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 226 Þey han made wyketis on euery quarter of þe hwse to schete owte atte.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxii. 136 Eche of them shal haue a litel wiket open for to shote a gonne.

1616 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 341 With ane litill wicket..to luik in to the paissis.

1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Wicket, a casement.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1181/4 Having seized the Wicket or Sally-port, they got on the Ramparts.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Wicket, a casement, also, a little door.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 853/2 Wicket, a small door in the gate of a fortified place, &c. or a hole in a door through which to view what passes without.

3. Cricket.

a. A set of three sticks called stumps, fixed upright in the ground, and surmounted by two small pieces of wood called bails (bail n.⁴ 2), forming the structure at which the bowler aims the ball, and before which the batter stands to defend it with the bat.According to the current Laws of Cricket, the stumps are to stand 28 in. above the playing surface, the bails to project no more than ½ in. above the top of the stumps, and the overall width of the wicket to be 9 in. The wicket formerly consisted of two stumps and one bail, the change to three stumps being made around the year 1776. The overall dimensions of the wicket have varied over time, having been 22 in. x 6 in. in 1744 and gradually increased in stages over the years since then.

In quot. 1695 applied irregularly (and presumably in error) to the bail.

single wicket: see as main entry. double wicket, the ordinary form of the game, in which there are two wickets placed 22 yards apart, between which the two batters run. to keep wicket: to act as wicketkeeper (wicketkeeper n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > wicket

wicket1662

stick1829

timber1840

gate1851

castle1959

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > field [verb (intransitive)] > keep wicket

to keep wicket1773

keep1862

wicket-keep1891

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > forms of cricket

single-wicket1735

single-hand cricket1761

double wicket1778

county cricket1855

snob1888

stump cricket1888

tip-and-run1891

stump1903

French cricket1907

Twenty202002

1662 Inquest D. Morgan in Assize Court Indictment Files, Maidstone, Kent (P.R.O.: ASSI 35/104/5) No. 58 The ball thrown against his wickett.

1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. sig. Mmmmm/2 Salicetum, an Osier-bed, or low moist place on the bank of a River... The wicket or cross stick to be thrown down by the ball at the game call'd Crickets, &c.

1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote ii. vii. 120 He..Could toss or catch a Ball at Cricket, And guard with Bandy-bat the Wicket.

1732 Daily Jrnl. 3 July The Wickets are to be pitch'd at One o'Clock.

1770 W. Guthrie New Geogr. Gram. 120 [Cricket] is performed by a person who with a clumsy wooden bat, defends a wicket raised of two slender sticks, with one across.

1773 J. Burnby Kentish Cricketers 14 Davis, who loves a Game of Cricket, And shines whene'er he keeps the Wicket.

1778 Coventry Mercury 6 July 3/4 On Tuesday last..a Cricket Match, (full set at double wicket) was played between the Wappenbury and Coventry players.

1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes II. iii. 83 Cricket... This game which is played with the bat and ball, consists of single and double wicket.

1803 Laws of Cricket 6 The Bowler..shall bowl four balls before he changes wickets.

1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 62 What a handful of steel-hearted soldiers are in an important pass, such was Tom [Sueter] in keeping the wicket. Nothing went by him.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 70 Played a match once—single wicket.

1849 Laws of Cricket in ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (1850) 60 The bowler is subject to the same laws as at double wicket.

1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 98 A single wicket player.

1859 All Year Round 23 July 306 Serjeant-Major McJug,..one of our best bats, went to the wicket first with Winterburn.

1884 I. Bligh in James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Ann. i. ii. 10 Tylecote kept wicket well.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 May 11/1 When the wickets were drawn Gloucestershire had made 361.

b. In various expressions referring to a batter's tenure of the wicket, or that part of an innings during which some particular batter is (or might be) ‘in’, i.e. at the wicket:e.g. to take four wickets (said of a bowler), to put four batters ‘out’; three wickets (or third wicket) down, three men having been put out; the sixth wicket fell for 75 = the sixth batter was put out after 75 runs had been made in the innings; to win by eight wickets, i.e. by exceeding the opponents' full score of runs, with eight wickets yet to ‘fall’ (= with two men ‘not out’ and seven not having been ‘in’ in the innings).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > batsman's tenure of wicket

wicket1738

innings1755

stand1808

life1865

partnership1868

1738 London Evening-post 2 Sept. Battle..left Eastbourne 43 to get, which they did with Ease, leaving four Wickets to be put up when Battle was beat.

1749 London Evening-post 3 June They..had two Wickets to go down.

1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps lv [They] had beaten the dalesmen by ten wickets.

1881 Standard 28 June 3/1 Another wicket now fell,..—six for 76.

1883 Daily Tel. 15 May 2/7 Full score, six wickets for 72 runs.

1900 Daily Chron. 16 Dec. 8/1 The first-wicket partnership of MacLaren and Hayward.

1902 Daily Chron. 4 June 6/7 Jackson took four wickets with five consecutive balls.

c. transferred. The ground between and about the wickets, esp. in respect of its condition; the pitch.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > wicket

wicket1862

pitch1871

cricket pitch1876

strip1976

track1976

1862 Sporting Life 14 June 3/5 Nottinghamshire..sent C. Daft and Brampton to two as fine wickets as the Surrey ‘or any other ground’ in England could furnish.

1881 Standard 14 June 3/8 The condition of the wicket, on which the fast bowling bumped and the slows popped about.

1881 Daily News 9 July 2 The wicket did not seem to play particularly well.

1884 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Ann. i. ii. 3 The English eleven, again successful in the toss, commenced batting on a perfect wicket.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Apr. 6/1 The wickets were all matting,..there being not a single turf wicket in the [Cape] colony.

d. Figurative phrases: to be on a good wicket, to be in an advantageous or favourable position; to bat (or be) on a sticky wicket: see sticky adj.² 2b(b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)] > have position of advantage

to have the ground on one's side1650

to be on a good wicket1941

1941 Punch 24 Dec. 551/1 I wondered why I was so anxious to conceal my age; for the old are on a good wicket.

1961 Listener 2 Nov. 737/2 Perhaps the most satisfactory contributions are those of Lord Birkett, who is on a good wicket in describing the change in legal attitudes to obscenity, and Dr. Robert Gosling.

1977 Verbatim Dec. 3/2 To be on a good wicket is, like being on a good pitch, to ‘be in a good spot’. To be on a good wicket with someone is to ‘be in favor’ with him.

4. U.S. Croquet. A hoop.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > hoop

wicket1868

wire1868

hoop1872

1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xii. 182 Jo was through the last wicket, and had missed the stroke... Fred..gave a stroke, his ball hit the wicket, and stopped an inch on the wrong side.

1890 Cent. Dict. at Croquet Each person in turn strikes his own ball once; if his ball passes through a wicket..he is allowed another stroke.

5. In various technical senses.

a. A small gate or valve for emptying the chamber of a canal-lock, or in the chute of a waterwheel for regulating the passage of water.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice

hatchOE

clowa1250

lock1261

water lock1261

sluice1340

water gate1390

sewer-gate1402

spay1415

floodgatec1440

shuttlec1440

spayer1450

gate1496

falling gate1524

spoye1528

gote1531

penstock1542

ventil1570

drawgate1587

flood-hatch1587

turnpike1623

slaker1664

lock gate1677

hatchway1705

flash1768

turnpike-lock1771

sluice-gate1781

pound-lock1783

stop-gate1790

buck gate1791

slacker1797

aboiteau1802

koker1814

guard-lock1815

falling sluice1819

lasher1840

fender1847

tailgate1875

weir-hatch1875

wicket1875

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wicket, a gate formed like a butterfly-valve, in the chute of a water-wheel, to graduate the amount of water passing to the wheel.

b. Coal Mining. A very wide heading or stall, usually with two road-ways, in a variety of pillar-and-stall work (called wicket-work) in use in North Wales.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > working face or place

witchet1677

face1708

front1717

stope1747

wall1750

web1767

working place1827

wall-face1839

offset1872

wicket1881

upset1883

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 191 Wicket, a breast.

c. One of a set of gratings in the form of which the lead is made up in the manufacture of white lead.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > other types of metal product

pierce-work1833

pan-charge1868

wicket1893

1893 Times 16 Dec. 9/5 The dangers to health begin with the second process, the conversion of the ‘wickets’ by the corrosion of an acid into white lead.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as wicket-door (= sense 1), wicket-grate, wicket-window; (sense 3) wicket-bag, wicket-taker. See also wicket-gate n., wicketkeeper n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > small

wicketa1300

wicket-door1813

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xix. 159 An arched portal door, In whose broad folding leaves..Was framed a wicket window-grate;..The gallant Knight took earnest view The grated wicket-window through.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 113 A little oaken wicket -door.

1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. ii. 23 A dusky passage, at the end of which was a wicket door.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 101 A team of cricketers passed,..one of them carrying the long green wicketbag.

1962 Times 20 June 4/1 In the second Test match..Coldwell wins his [cap] as the season's premier wicket-taker.

1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 76 Barry Knight had been the main wicket-taker in the West Indies first innings with four.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	wicket
释义	wicketn. Brit. /ˈwɪkɪt/, U.S. /ˈwɪkᵻt/ Forms: [Middle English wicat], Middle English wykett(e, Middle English–1500s wyket, wiket, Middle English wikett, wekett, Middle English–1500s wykket(t, wycket, wickett, Middle English wickette, wekyt, ( wigate), Middle English–1500s weket, 1500s weiket, Middle English– wicket. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman = Old Northern French wiket (Norman viquet, Walloon wichet) = Old French (modern French) guichet; usually referred to the Germanic root appearing in Old Norse víkja to move, turn (Swedish vika, Danish vige); but the forms Old French guischet, wisket, Provençal guisquet indicate the possibility of another source. 1. a. A small door or gate made in, or placed beside, a large one, for ingress and egress when the large one is closed; also, any small gate for foot-passengers, as at the entrance of a field or other enclosure. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > small or lesser hatchOE wicketa1300 wicket-gate1362 portal1706 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > small wicketa1300 wicket-door1813 a1300 in E. M. Thompson Customary St. Augustine's, Canterbury (1904) II. 256 Servientes sacristiæ tenentur esse intro ad ‘Covrefou’;..tunc deferentur claves ad sacristam, tam ‘wicat’ quam magnæ portæ cimiterii.] a1300 K. Horn (Cambr.) 1074 Horn gan to þe ȝate turne & þat wiket vnspurne. a1366 Romaunt Rose 528 I fonde a wiket small, So shett that I ne myght In gon. a1400–50 Wars Alex. 5545 In at a wicket he went. a1483 in L. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 320 ij. keyys for þ^e wekett. 1485 in G. W. Kitchin Compotus Rolls St. Swithun's, Winchester (1892) 384 Super magnam portam et le Wigate ejusdem portæ. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxi. 462 Mawgys cam nere to the wycket of the gate. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxlvi. 546 He came to the abbey gate & callyd y^e porter,..he openyd the weket & beheld Huon,..& sayd ‘pylgryme, enter when you plese’. Then Huon enterid in at the weket. 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 295 He tooke his leaue of hir, and went out at a little wicket into a narrowe by lane. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 484 Now Saint Peter at Heav'ns Wicket seems To wait them with his Keys. View more context for this quotation 1766 O. Goldsmith Ballad [the Hermit] in Vicar of Wakefield I. viii The wicket, opening with a latch, Received the harmless pair. 1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets ii. 70 You see a little..old man by a wood-side opening a wicket. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. x. 265 He who would thrive at court must know the private wickets and concealed stair-cases. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xv. 147 A..boy came out of a sort of office, and looked at us over a spiked wicket. 1899 E. Gosse Life J. Donne I. 92 The gates of the house were shut upon the dignified envoys, but, after some stay,..they were let in by the wicket. b. figurative or in figurative context. ΚΠ a1400 Prymer (1895) 12 Thou art wiket of þe hiȝ king, & þe greet ȝate of liȝt þat schyneþ briȝt. c1400 26 Pol. Poems xxii. 4 Þou..wan in at þe wyket of synne. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMvii Stryue to entre by the straite wicket. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 30 With hir that will clicket, make daunger to cope, least happily hir wicket [i.e. mouth] be easy to ope. 1663 G. Mackenzie Religio Stoici 107 Seing nothing is room'd in our judgment and apprehension, but what first entred by the wicket of sense. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iii. i. 22 Thou art the Wicket to thy Mistresses Gate, to be opened for all Comers. a1870 D. G. Rossetti Love's Nocturn in Poems v At death's wicket. †2. A small opening, esp. one through which to look out or communicate with the outside; a loophole, grill, or the like. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > small opening for communication wicket1296 locutorya1535 grate1590 grille1686 guichet1839 1296 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/20) m. 4 dorso In .xxv. anulis ad Hecch', tribus paribus gemell ad Wykett' Bargie, xij Keuillis ferri ad Castrum .vij. d. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4362 Ayenst the toure A postern ther is,..There is right A privey wiket; Draw we thidre..That our frendes may se vs within. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 527/2 Wykett, or lytylle wyndowe, fenestra. 1448 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 226 Þey han made wyketis on euery quarter of þe hwse to schete owte atte. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxii. 136 Eche of them shal haue a litel wiket open for to shote a gonne. 1616 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 341 With ane litill wicket..to luik in to the paissis. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Wicket, a casement. 1677 London Gaz. No. 1181/4 Having seized the Wicket or Sally-port, they got on the Ramparts. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Wicket, a casement, also, a little door. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 853/2 Wicket, a small door in the gate of a fortified place, &c. or a hole in a door through which to view what passes without. 3. Cricket. a. A set of three sticks called stumps, fixed upright in the ground, and surmounted by two small pieces of wood called bails (bail n.⁴ 2), forming the structure at which the bowler aims the ball, and before which the batter stands to defend it with the bat.According to the current Laws of Cricket, the stumps are to stand 28 in. above the playing surface, the bails to project no more than ½ in. above the top of the stumps, and the overall width of the wicket to be 9 in. The wicket formerly consisted of two stumps and one bail, the change to three stumps being made around the year 1776. The overall dimensions of the wicket have varied over time, having been 22 in. x 6 in. in 1744 and gradually increased in stages over the years since then. In quot. 1695 applied irregularly (and presumably in error) to the bail. single wicket: see as main entry. double wicket, the ordinary form of the game, in which there are two wickets placed 22 yards apart, between which the two batters run. to keep wicket: to act as wicketkeeper (wicketkeeper n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > wicket wicket1662 stick1829 timber1840 gate1851 castle1959 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > field [verb (intransitive)] > keep wicket to keep wicket1773 keep1862 wicket-keep1891 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > forms of cricket single-wicket1735 single-hand cricket1761 double wicket1778 county cricket1855 snob1888 stump cricket1888 tip-and-run1891 stump1903 French cricket1907 Twenty202002 1662 Inquest D. Morgan in Assize Court Indictment Files, Maidstone, Kent (P.R.O.: ASSI 35/104/5) No. 58 The ball thrown against his wickett. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. Gloss. sig. Mmmmm/2 Salicetum, an Osier-bed, or low moist place on the bank of a River... The wicket or cross stick to be thrown down by the ball at the game call'd Crickets, &c. 1710 E. Ward Life Don Quixote ii. vii. 120 He..Could toss or catch a Ball at Cricket, And guard with Bandy-bat the Wicket. 1732 Daily Jrnl. 3 July The Wickets are to be pitch'd at One o'Clock. 1770 W. Guthrie New Geogr. Gram. 120 [Cricket] is performed by a person who with a clumsy wooden bat, defends a wicket raised of two slender sticks, with one across. 1773 J. Burnby Kentish Cricketers 14 Davis, who loves a Game of Cricket, And shines whene'er he keeps the Wicket. 1778 Coventry Mercury 6 July 3/4 On Tuesday last..a Cricket Match, (full set at double wicket) was played between the Wappenbury and Coventry players. 1801 J. Strutt Sports & Pastimes II. iii. 83 Cricket... This game which is played with the bat and ball, consists of single and double wicket. 1803 Laws of Cricket 6 The Bowler..shall bowl four balls before he changes wickets. 1833 J. Nyren Young Cricketer's Tutor 62 What a handful of steel-hearted soldiers are in an important pass, such was Tom [Sueter] in keeping the wicket. Nothing went by him. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) vii. 70 Played a match once—single wicket. 1849 Laws of Cricket in ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (1850) 60 The bowler is subject to the same laws as at double wicket. 1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 98 A single wicket player. 1859 All Year Round 23 July 306 Serjeant-Major McJug,..one of our best bats, went to the wicket first with Winterburn. 1884 I. Bligh in James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Ann. i. ii. 10 Tylecote kept wicket well. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 May 11/1 When the wickets were drawn Gloucestershire had made 361. b. In various expressions referring to a batter's tenure of the wicket, or that part of an innings during which some particular batter is (or might be) ‘in’, i.e. at the wicket:e.g. to take four wickets (said of a bowler), to put four batters ‘out’; three wickets (or third wicket) down, three men having been put out; the sixth wicket fell for 75 = the sixth batter was put out after 75 runs had been made in the innings; to win by eight wickets, i.e. by exceeding the opponents' full score of runs, with eight wickets yet to ‘fall’ (= with two men ‘not out’ and seven not having been ‘in’ in the innings). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > [noun] > batsman's tenure of wicket wicket1738 innings1755 stand1808 life1865 partnership1868 1738 London Evening-post 2 Sept. Battle..left Eastbourne 43 to get, which they did with Ease, leaving four Wickets to be put up when Battle was beat. 1749 London Evening-post 3 June They..had two Wickets to go down. 1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps lv [They] had beaten the dalesmen by ten wickets. 1881 Standard 28 June 3/1 Another wicket now fell,..—six for 76. 1883 Daily Tel. 15 May 2/7 Full score, six wickets for 72 runs. 1900 Daily Chron. 16 Dec. 8/1 The first-wicket partnership of MacLaren and Hayward. 1902 Daily Chron. 4 June 6/7 Jackson took four wickets with five consecutive balls. c. transferred. The ground between and about the wickets, esp. in respect of its condition; the pitch. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricket ground > [noun] > wicket wicket1862 pitch1871 cricket pitch1876 strip1976 track1976 1862 Sporting Life 14 June 3/5 Nottinghamshire..sent C. Daft and Brampton to two as fine wickets as the Surrey ‘or any other ground’ in England could furnish. 1881 Standard 14 June 3/8 The condition of the wicket, on which the fast bowling bumped and the slows popped about. 1881 Daily News 9 July 2 The wicket did not seem to play particularly well. 1884 James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Ann. i. ii. 3 The English eleven, again successful in the toss, commenced batting on a perfect wicket. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Apr. 6/1 The wickets were all matting,..there being not a single turf wicket in the [Cape] colony. d. Figurative phrases: to be on a good wicket, to be in an advantageous or favourable position; to bat (or be) on a sticky wicket: see sticky adj.² 2b(b). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery, superiority, or advantage [verb (intransitive)] > have position of advantage to have the ground on one's side1650 to be on a good wicket1941 1941 Punch 24 Dec. 551/1 I wondered why I was so anxious to conceal my age; for the old are on a good wicket. 1961 Listener 2 Nov. 737/2 Perhaps the most satisfactory contributions are those of Lord Birkett, who is on a good wicket in describing the change in legal attitudes to obscenity, and Dr. Robert Gosling. 1977 Verbatim Dec. 3/2 To be on a good wicket is, like being on a good pitch, to ‘be in a good spot’. To be on a good wicket with someone is to ‘be in favor’ with him. 4. U.S. Croquet. A hoop. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > croquet > [noun] > hoop wicket1868 wire1868 hoop1872 1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. xii. 182 Jo was through the last wicket, and had missed the stroke... Fred..gave a stroke, his ball hit the wicket, and stopped an inch on the wrong side. 1890 Cent. Dict. at Croquet Each person in turn strikes his own ball once; if his ball passes through a wicket..he is allowed another stroke. 5. In various technical senses. a. A small gate or valve for emptying the chamber of a canal-lock, or in the chute of a waterwheel for regulating the passage of water. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice hatchOE clowa1250 lock1261 water lock1261 sluice1340 water gate1390 sewer-gate1402 spay1415 floodgatec1440 shuttlec1440 spayer1450 gate1496 falling gate1524 spoye1528 gote1531 penstock1542 ventil1570 drawgate1587 flood-hatch1587 turnpike1623 slaker1664 lock gate1677 hatchway1705 flash1768 turnpike-lock1771 sluice-gate1781 pound-lock1783 stop-gate1790 buck gate1791 slacker1797 aboiteau1802 koker1814 guard-lock1815 falling sluice1819 lasher1840 fender1847 tailgate1875 weir-hatch1875 wicket1875 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Wicket, a gate formed like a butterfly-valve, in the chute of a water-wheel, to graduate the amount of water passing to the wheel. b. Coal Mining. A very wide heading or stall, usually with two road-ways, in a variety of pillar-and-stall work (called wicket-work) in use in North Wales. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > working face or place witchet1677 face1708 front1717 stope1747 wall1750 web1767 working place1827 wall-face1839 offset1872 wicket1881 upset1883 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 191 Wicket, a breast. c. One of a set of gratings in the form of which the lead is made up in the manufacture of white lead. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > other types of metal product pierce-work1833 pan-charge1868 wicket1893 1893 Times 16 Dec. 9/5 The dangers to health begin with the second process, the conversion of the ‘wickets’ by the corrosion of an acid into white lead. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as wicket-door (= sense 1), wicket-grate, wicket-window; (sense 3) wicket-bag, wicket-taker. See also wicket-gate n., wicketkeeper n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of door > [noun] > small wicketa1300 wicket-door1813 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xix. 159 An arched portal door, In whose broad folding leaves..Was framed a wicket window-grate;..The gallant Knight took earnest view The grated wicket-window through. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 113 A little oaken wicket -door. View more context for this quotation 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain III. ii. 23 A dusky passage, at the end of which was a wicket door. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 101 A team of cricketers passed,..one of them carrying the long green wicketbag. 1962 Times 20 June 4/1 In the second Test match..Coldwell wins his [cap] as the season's premier wicket-taker. 1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 76 Barry Knight had been the main wicket-taker in the West Indies first innings with four. 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