EGAVE

wicket

About 0.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
  2. noun A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
  3. noun A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
  4. noun a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
    He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
  7. noun The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.
    He kept the wicket.
  8. noun The period during which two batsmen bat together.

Similar words

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Often followed by

gate and in of was to with is gates

Word family

wickets

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