wicket: [13] A wicket was originally a ‘small gate’, and etymologically the word appears to denote something that ‘turns’ – presumably on a hinge in opening and closing. It was borrowed from Old Northern French wiket, which in turn came from a Germanic source represented also by modern Swedish vika ‘fold, turn’. The set of stumps originally used for cricket resembled a gate – indeed the game’s first batsmen may have defended an actual gate in a sheep pen – and so it came to be known as a wicket. This was in the 18th century; the extension of the term to the ‘pitch’ dates from the mid 19th century.
wicket (n.)
early 13c., "small door or gate," especially one forming part of a larger one, from Anglo-French wiket, Old North French wiket (Old French guichet, Norman viquet) "small door, wicket, wicket gate," probably from Proto-Germanic *wik- (cognates: Old Norse vik "nook," Old English wican "to give way, yield"), from PIE root *weik- (4) "to bend, wind" (see weak). The notion is of "something that turns." Cricket sense of "set of three sticks defended by the batsman" is recorded from 1733; hence many figurative phrases in British English.
雙語例句
1. The fielders crouch around the batsman's wicket.
防守隊員蹲伏在擊球手守衛的三柱門周圍。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Defending his wicket watchfully, the last man is playing out time.
最後一名球員小心地守著他的三柱門, 直到比賽結束.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Buy your tickets at this wicket.
請在此窗口買票.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. The wicket opened on a stone staircase, leading upward.
小門通向一道上行的石梯.
來自英漢文學 - 雙城記
5. 'The ghosts that vanished when the wicket closed.