Definitions for wickets

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wickets wick·et

Spelling: [wik-it]

IPA: /ˈwɪk ɪt/

Wickets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in wickets (ceikstw).

Definitions for wickets

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. Croquet. 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 the wickets; the playing field. one batsman's turn at the wicket. the period during which two players bat together. a batsman's inning that is not completed or not begun.

Idioms

1. to be on / have / bat a sticky wicket, British Slang. to be at or have a disadvantage.

Origin of wickets

1200-50; Middle English wiket Anglo-French; Old French guischet Germanic; compare Middle Dutch wiket wicket, equivalent to wik- (akin to Old English wīcan to yield; see w

Examples for wickets

"And here it is," said Cashel, as he unlocked the wicket and flung it wide.

I remembered, however, that Sir Giles had brought me in by a wicket in that gate.

When the kiln is full the wicket is bricked up and daubed over with road-mud.

He led his guest forth, let him out by the wicket, and returned to the kitchen.

But stay, I heard the wicket close—there is some one coming.

But if you knock I shall be waiting for you, and I will admit you by the wicket.

Anyway, you'll have to move on and let the others get up to the wicket.

The first man to approach the wicket was the Director of the Circus.

As we enter, we hear her, standing at the wicket, talking to some one behind the scene.

Then I stopped, for the man with the bleary eyes had shut the wicket in my face.