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单词 wicket-gate
释义

wicket-gaten.

Brit. /ˈwɪkɪtɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈwɪkᵻtˌɡeɪt/
Etymology: gate n.1
= wicket n. 1.
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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
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1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vi. 92 To wynne vp þe wiket-ȝat þat þe wey schutte.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 10 That side of the Slough, that was..next to the Wicket-gate . View more context for this quotation
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §316 A wicket gate, separating the yard from the passage.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiii. 258 A garden, whence a wicket-gate opened into a small paddock.
1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. i. 4 She..opened the little wicket-gate which led to the vicarage garden, passed in.
figurative.1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xxii. 213 So Nero deliberately chose the evil and refused the good, and the narrow wicket-gate of repentance was closed behind him.
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