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wick⋅et

[wik-it]

–noun

1.	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.

2.	Croquet. a hoop or arch.

3.	a turnstile in an entrance.

4.	a small door or gate, esp. one beside, or forming part of, a larger one.

5.	a small gate by which a canal lock is emptied.

6.	a gate by which a flow of water is regulated, as to a waterwheel.

Cricket.

a.	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.

b.	the area between the wickets; the playing field.

c.	one batsman's turn at the wicket.

d.	the period during which two players bat together.

e.	a batsman's inning that is not completed or not begun.

—Idiom

8.	to be on, have, or bat a sticky wicket, British Slang. to be at or have a disadvantage.

Origin:
1200–50; ME wiket < AF; OF guischet < Gmc; cf. MD wiket wicket, equiv. to wik- (akin to OE wīcan to yield; see weak ) + -et n. suffix

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pitch² (pĭch)

v. pitched, pitch·ing, pitch·es

v. tr.

1. To throw, usually with careful aim. See Synonyms at throw.
2. To discard by throwing: pitched the can out the window.
3. To throw (the ball) from the mound to the batter.
4. To play (a game) as pitcher.
5. To assign as pitcher.
6. To set at a particular level, degree, or quality: pitched her expectations too high.
7. Music To set the pitch or key of.
8. To adapt so as to be applicable; direct: pitched his speech to the teenagers in the audience.
9. To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.
10. To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).
Baseball
1. To throw (the ball) from the mound to the batter.
2. To play (a game) as pitcher.
3. To assign as pitcher.
4. To set at a particular level, degree, or quality: pitched her expectations too high.
5. Music To set the pitch or key of.
6. To adapt so as to be applicable; direct: pitched his speech to the teenagers in the audience.
7. To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.
8. To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).
To erect or establish; set up: pitched a tent; pitch camp.
To set firmly; implant; embed: pitched stakes in the ground.
To set at a specified downward slant: pitched the roof at a steep angle.
1. To set at a particular level, degree, or quality: pitched her expectations too high.
2. Music To set the pitch or key of.
3. To adapt so as to be applicable; direct: pitched his speech to the teenagers in the audience.
4. To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.
5. To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).
Informal To attempt to promote or sell, often in a high-pressure manner: "showed up on local TV to pitch their views" (Business Week).
Sports To hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.
Games
1. To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.
2. To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).

v. intr.

To throw or toss something, such as a ball, horseshoe, or bale.
Baseball To play in the position of pitcher.
To plunge headlong: He pitched over the railing.
1. To stumble around; lurch.
2. To buck, as a horse.
3. Nautical To dip bow and stern alternately.
4. To oscillate about a lateral axis so that the nose lifts or descends in relation to the tail. Used of an aircraft.
5. To oscillate about a lateral axis that is both perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and horizontal to the earth. Used of a missile or spacecraft.
1. Nautical To dip bow and stern alternately.
2. To oscillate about a lateral axis so that the nose lifts or descends in relation to the tail. Used of an aircraft.
3. To oscillate about a lateral axis that is both perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and horizontal to the earth. Used of a missile or spacecraft.
To slope downward: The hill pitches steeply.
To set up living quarters; encamp; settle.
Sports To hit a golf ball in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.

The act or an instance of pitching.
Baseball
1. A throw of the ball by the pitcher to the batter.
2. A ball so thrown.
3. Nautical The alternate dip and rise of the bow and stern of a ship.
4. The alternate lift and descent of the nose and tail of an airplane.
5. A steep downward slope.
6. The degree of such a slope.
7. The angle of a roof.
8. The highest point of a structure: the pitch of an arch.
9. Acoustics The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.
10. Music The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.
11. Music Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.
12. The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.
13. The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.
14. The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.
15. A line of talk designed to persuade: "[his] pious pitch for . . . austerity" (Boston Globe).
16. An advertisement.
Chiefly British A playing field. Also called wicket.
1. Nautical The alternate dip and rise of the bow and stern of a ship.
2. The alternate lift and descent of the nose and tail of an airplane.
3. A steep downward slope.
4. The degree of such a slope.
5. The angle of a roof.
6. The highest point of a structure: the pitch of an arch.
7. Acoustics The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.
8. Music The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.
9. Music Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.
10. The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.
11. The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.
12. The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.
13. A line of talk designed to persuade: "[his] pious pitch for . . . austerity" (Boston Globe).
14. An advertisement.
1. A steep downward slope.
2. The degree of such a slope.
3. The angle of a roof.
4. The highest point of a structure: the pitch of an arch.
5. Acoustics The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.
6. Music The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.
7. Music Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.
8. The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.
9. The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.
10. The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.
11. A line of talk designed to persuade: "[his] pious pitch for . . . austerity" (Boston Globe).
12. An advertisement.
Architecture
1. The angle of a roof.
2. The highest point of a structure: the pitch of an arch.
3. Acoustics The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.
4. Music The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.
5. Music Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.
6. The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.
7. The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.
8. The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.
9. A line of talk designed to persuade: "[his] pious pitch for . . . austerity" (Boston Globe).
10. An advertisement.
A level or degree, as of intensity: worked at a feverish pitch to meet the deadline.
1. Acoustics The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.
2. Music The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.
3. Music Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.
4. The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.
5. The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.
6. The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.
7. A line of talk designed to persuade: "[his] pious pitch for . . . austerity" (Boston Globe).
8. An advertisement.
1. The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.
2. The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.
3. The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.
4. A line of talk designed to persuade: "[his] pious pitch for . . . austerity" (Boston Globe).
5. An advertisement.
The distance that a propeller would travel in an ideal medium during one complete revolution, measured parallel to the shaft of the propeller.
Informal
1. A line of talk designed to persuade: "[his] pious pitch for . . . austerity" (Boston Globe).
2. An advertisement.
Chiefly British The stand of a vendor or hawker.
Games See seven-up.
Printing The density of characters in a printed line, usually expressed as characters per inch.

Phrasal Verb(s):
pitch in Informal

To set to work vigorously.
To join forces with others; help or cooperate.

pitch into Informal To attack verbally or physically; assault.
pitch on/upon Informal To succeed in choosing or achieving, usually quickly: pitched on the ideal solution.

[Middle English pichen, probably from Old English *piccean, causative of *pīcian, to prick.]

wick·et (wĭk'ĭt)

A small door or gate, especially one built into or near a larger one.
A small window or opening, often fitted with glass or a grating.
A sluice gate for regulating the amount of water in a millrace or canal or for emptying a lock.
Sports In cricket:
1. Either of the two sets of three stumps, topped by bails, that forms the target of the bowler and is defended by the batsman.
2. A batsman's innings, which may be terminated by the ball knocking the bails off the stumps.
3. The termination of a batsman's innings.
4. The period during which two batsmen are in together.
5. See pitch².
Games Any of the small arches, usually made of wire, through which players try to drive their ball in croquet.

[Middle English, from Old North French wiket, nook, wicket; see weik-² in Indo-European roots.]

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Wicket

Wick"et\, n. [OE. wiket, OF. wiket, guichet, F. quichet; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. v?k a small creek, inlet, bay, vik a corner.]

1. 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. "Heaven's wicket." --Milton.

And so went to the high street, . . . and came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast closed. --Ld. Berners.

The wicket, often opened, knew the key. --Dryden.

2. 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.

3. (Cricket) (a) 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. (b) The ground on which the wickets are set.

4. A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc. [Local, U. S.] --Bartlett.

5. (Mining) The space between the pillars, in postand-stall working. --Raymond.

Wicket door, Wicket gate, a small door or gate; a wicket. See def. 1, above. --Bunyan.

Wicket keeper (Cricket), the player who stands behind the wicket to catch the balls and endeavor to put the batsman out.

Language Translation for : wicket

Spanish: palos,

German: das Tor,

Japanese: 三柱門

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wicket

c.1225, "small door or gate," from Anglo-Fr. wiket, from O.N.Fr. wiket (Fr. guichet) "wicket, wicket gate," probably from P.Gmc. *wik- (cf. O.N. vik "nook") related to O.E. wican "to give way, yield" (see weak). The notion is of "something that turns." Cricket sense of "set of three sticks defended by the batsman" is recorded from 1733.

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