wicket
/ˈwɪkɪt/ sustantivo C2En español: ventanilla
- A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
- a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
- 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.
- A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out. · He kept on taking wickets and bowled the opponents team out for 84.
- The job of a wicketkeeper while the team is bowling. · He kept the wicket.
- The period during which two batsmen bat together.
- The pitch.
Plural wickets
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And Bertuccio, feeling in his pocket, signed to a keeper whom he saw through the window of the wicket.
After numberless windings, Dantès saw a door with an iron wicket.
The wicket is the harbour and the garden is the shore.
On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket.
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