英语词汇“wicket gate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wicket /wikˈit/

noun

A small gate

A small door in or near a larger one

A grill or loophole (obsolete)

An opening or a window with a grille, eg at a ticket office, bank, etc (US)

(the following meanings all cricket) the upright arrangement of three stumps with two bails on top which the batsman defends against the bowling

A stump

The pitch, esp in respect of its condition

A batsman's stay at the wicket, or his joint stay there with another

A batsman's innings

ORIGIN: ONFr wiket (Fr guichet); of Gmc origin

wickˈetless adjective (cricket)

(of a bowler) not having dismissed a batsman

wicket door or wicket gate noun

A wicket

wickˈetkeeper noun (cricket)

The fieldsman who stands immediately behind the batsman's wicket and whose object is to stop balls missed by the batsman

get, take, etc a wicket

To bowl a batsman or have him dismissed in any way as a result of one's bowling

keep wicket

To be the wicketkeeper

over (or round) the wicket

(of bowling) delivered with the arm nearer (or farther away from) the wicket

sticky wicket see under stick²

throw down the wicket

(of a fielder) to break the wicket with a throw of the ball

win by so many wickets

To win with so many wickets still to fall