Word Meaning

Meaning of wicket

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The ground on which the wickets are set.
- A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.
- The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.

Crossword clue for wicket

- Cricket pitch
- Cricket term
- In cricket either of the two frames at which the ball is bowled
- It’s kept by gloveman but can get sticky