wicket
/wik-it/US // ˈwɪk ɪt //UK // (ˈwɪkɪt) //
门票,球门,球票,门球
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n.名词 noun
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- : 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.
- : Croquet. a hoop or arch.
- : a turnstile in an entrance.
- : a small door or gate, especially one beside, or forming part of, a larger one.
- : a small gate by which a canal lock is emptied.
- : a gate by which a flow of water is regulated, as to a waterwheel.
- : 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.
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Examples
Over the past three seasons of the English County Championship, no cricketer has taken more wickets than Essex off spinner Simon Harmer.
It looked into a garden, whence a wicket-gate opened into a small paddock; all beyond was fine meadow-land and wood.
Those whose hoops had been knocked down assembled on one side, close to the side wicket.
The gate itself, closed by enormous locks, had a wicket through which to examine those who asked admittance.
The conversation generally turned upon his old “missus,” who was buried under a yew tree, near the wicket gate.
The Disagreeable Woman's house is at the end of the row, and across the road is a wicket-gate leading—Where did it lead?
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