Definitions
small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
Word origin
From Middle English wiket, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French wiket, from Old East Old Norse víkjask (“to move oneself, move around”), reflexive of víkja, víkva, ýkva (“to yield, turn, move, go”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, bend, turn”). Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.
Used in a sentence
“He then pushed on at full speed, and at last got into the village; and just as they were on the point of catching hold of the horse, he sprung in through the farmer's gate, and the man slapt the wicket after him.”
“And dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked / Where Tim the ostler listened; his face was white and peaked; / His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay, […]”
“As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Small gate”6 letters
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