Definition of wicket

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Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..

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Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small gate or door, especially one forming part of, or placed near, a larger door or gate; a narrow opening or entrance cut in or beside a door or gate, or the door which is used to close such entrance or aperture. Piers Plowman..
Tice :: Tice (n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
Cricket :: Cricket (n.) A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides..
Long-stop :: Long-stop (n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
Off :: Off (n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.
Stump :: Stump (n.) To put (a batsman) out of play by knocking off the bail, or knocking down the stumps of the wicket he is defending while he is off his allotted ground; -- sometimes with out..
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc..
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small framework at which the ball is bowled. It consists of three rods, or stumps, set vertically in the ground, with one or two short rods, called bails, lying horizontally across the top..
Stump :: Stump (n.) To bowl down the stumps of, as, of a wicket..
Over :: Over (n.) A certain number of balls (usually four) delivered successively from behind one wicket, after which the ball is bowled from behind the other wicket as many times, the fielders changing places..
Run :: Run (n.) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs..
Volley :: Volley (n.) A sending of the ball full to the top of the wicket.
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) The ground on which the wickets are set.
Bail :: Bail (n.) The top or cross piece ( or either of the two cross pieces) of the wicket.
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A small gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied, or by which the amount of water passing to a water wheel is regulated..
Volley :: Volley (v. i.) To send the ball full to the top of the wicket.
Stump :: Stump (n.) One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails.
Loke :: Loke (n.) A private path or road; also, the wicket or hatch of a door..
Wide :: Wide (superl.) On one side or the other of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc..
Wicket :: Wicket (n.) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working..
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