Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLanguage is a finite instrument crudely applied to an infinity of ideas, and one consequence of the failure to take account of this is that modern philosophy has made itself ridiculous by analysing such statements as, "This is a good bacon sandwich," or, "Bedser had a good wicket." Tom Stoppard
My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North. L. Frank Baum
He soon made his name as a distinctly awkward fast left-arm bowler whose pounding run to the wicket was filled with menace. David Frith
On a treacherous wicket all the batsman can do is to watch the ball with all his might and let the bat follow the eye. K. S. Ranjitsinhji
He is possibly the only bowler to have played in a Test series as an automatic choice without taking a wicket. Fred Trueman
The cold mountain turns dark green. The autumn stream flows murmuring on. Leaning on my staff beneath the wicket gate, In the rushing wind I hear the cry of the aged cicada. Wang Wei