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.
例文
1. The fielders crouch around the batsman 's wicket .
守備手は打者が守る三柱門の周りにうずくまっている。
2.Defending his wicket watchfully，the last man is playing out time.
最後の選手は試合が終わるまで三柱門を慎重に守った。dd>
3.Buy your tickets at this wicket .
このウィンドウでチケットを買ってください.
4.The wicket opened on a stone staircase，leading upward.
小さなドアは上りの石階段に通じる。
5.'The ghosts that vanished when the wicket closed.