wicket
/ˈwɪkɪt/noun
1
- Cricket each of the sets of three stumps with two bails across the top at either end of the pitch, defended by a batsman【板球】三柱门。
1.1
- the prepared strip of ground between these two sets of stumps两个三柱门之间的场地。
1.2
- the dismissal of a batsman; each of ten dismissals regarded as marking a division of a side's innings击球手出局; 击球方每局任何一名击球手（共10名）的出局：
Darlington won by four wickets.
达令顿队以四名击球手未出局获胜。
2
- （亦作 wicket door 或 wicket gate）a small door or gate, especially one beside or in a larger one（在大门上或大门边的）小门, 边门, 便门。
2.1
- US an opening in a door or wall, often fitted with glass or a grille and used for selling tickets or a similar purpose〈美〉（售票处等的）窗口。
2.2
- US a croquet hoop〈美〉（槌球游戏中的）拱门。
短语
at the wicket
Cricket 【板球】
1
- batting击球：
the batsman remained at the wicket.
击球手仍在击球。
2
- by the wicketkeeper被守门员（…）：
he was caught at the wicket chasing a wide one.
他在追击一个投偏球时被守门员截住了。
keep wicket
- Cricket be a wicketkeeper【板球】守门。
lose a wicket
- Cricket (of a fielding side) have a batsman dismissed【板球】（防守方）击球手出局。
a sticky wicket
1
- Cricket a pitch that has been drying after rain and is difficult to bat on【板球】（雨后）周围场地泥泞的三柱门。
1.1
- in sing. informal a tricky or awkward situation〈非正式〉困境, 不利地位：
I might be on a sticky wicket if I used that line.
如果我当时采取那种方式的话, 我也许就会处境不利。
over the wicket
- Cricket (referring to which side of the wicket a bowler runs when bowling) to the left of the wicket if a right-handed bowler and the right of the wicket if a left-handed bowler【板球】（投球手）朝自己投球使用的手相反方向跑。
round the wicket
- Cricket (referring to which side of the wicket a bowler runs when bowling) to the right of the wicket if a right-handed bowler and the left of the wicket if a left-handed bowler【板球】（投球手）朝自己投球使用的手一致的方向跑。
take a wicket
- Cricket (of a bowler or a fielding side) dismiss a batsman【板球】（投球手, 防守方）使击球员出局, 把击球员杀出局。
词源
Middle English （in the sense 'small door or grille'）： from Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French wiket;origin uncertain， usually referred to the Germanic root of Old Norse vīkja 'to turn， move'. Cricket senses date from the late 17th cent.