wicketとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkɪt/
• 韻: -ɪkɪt

名詞

wicket (複数形 wickets)

1. A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
   • 1906 August​, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, OCLC 28569419, part 1, stanza IV, pages 46–47:

     And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […]

2. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:

     As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.

3. (Britain) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
4. (cricket) 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.
5. (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
6. (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
7. (cricket) The pitch.
8. (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
9. (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
10. (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
11. (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.

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12. (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working^[1].
13. (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.
14. (veterinary) A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.

派生語

• on a good wicket
• sticky wicket
• wicket gate

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