"Wicket" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
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 place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by
lumbermen, etc.
The ground on which the wickets are set.
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.
The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working.
For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible.
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Of another sort.
Read the complete definitionAn outer port, gate, or door.
Read the complete definitionA platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut.
Read the complete definitionv. /AG-/ to make a regular thumping sound, to pound or knock on something regularly. Mangngeg ko nga agbanegbeg dagiti …
Read the complete definitionTo fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate.
Read the complete definitionA piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever …
Read the complete definitionA tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It …
Read the complete definitionA wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in …
Read the complete definitionA small body of water set off from the main body; as a compartment containing water for a wheel; the …
Read the complete definitionA market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
Read the complete definitionA prison; -- originally the name of the old north gate in Oxford, which was used as a prison.
Read the complete definitionA sliding catch, or fastening, as for a door or gate; the portion of a lock which is shot or …
Read the complete definitionThe desertion by oue or more persons from the political party to which he or they belong; the permanent withdrawal …
Read the complete definitionThat by which anything is caught or temporarily fastened; as, the catch of a gate.
Read the complete definitionIn the civil and old English law. To be engaged in a suit; to litl-gate; to conduct a cause
Read the complete definitionIn its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propa-gate hls …
Read the complete definitionConstraint; objective necessity. Forcible inducement to the corn-mission of an act. Navigation Co. v. Brown, 100 Pa. 346; U. S. …
Read the complete definitionAn iron gate before a prison. 1 Vent. 304
Read the complete definitionA withe for fastening a gate.
Read the complete definitionThat part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and …
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