wicket

noun17

1. •
   A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.

   • 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, […] — 1906
2. •
   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.

   • The umpire placed the wickets 10 minutes before the match started.
3. •
   A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.

   • He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
4. •
   The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.

   • The captain told his fast bowler to bowl around the wicket.
5. •
   The pitch.
6. •
   Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
7. •
   A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.

   • As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket. — 1978
8. •
   (UK, Canada) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
9. •
   The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling.

   • He kept the wicket.
10. •
    The period during which two batsmen bat together.
11. •
    a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
12. •
    (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.
13. •
    (slang) A highly stylized, elongated signature tag that originated in Philadelphia during the early-to-mid 1970s.
14. •
    A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
15. •
    A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
16. •
    (dialect, US) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.

    • make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit — 1873
17. •
    The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.