wicket

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vik. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

noun

1. A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
2. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
   As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket. 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386
3. (Britain) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
4. a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
5. (cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
6. (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
7. (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
8. (cricket) The pitch.
9. (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
10. (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
11. (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
12. (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
    make kindly welcome whatever forest wanderer happens to enter the wicket of the log hit 1873, Andrew Leith Adams, Field and Forest Rambles
13. (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
14. (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.
15. (veterinary) A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.