wicket gate
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]wicket gate (plural wicket gates)
- A small gate or door, especially one built into a large one.
- 1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Walter Hartright/XV”, in The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, […], published 1860, →OCLC:
- I turned instinctively to the walk beneath my study-window, where I had seen her the evening before with her little dog, and followed the path which her dear feet had trodden so often, till I came to the wicket gate that led into her rose garden.
- 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur[1]:
- No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward. She walked across the tow path to the neat green wicket gate and stepped through into the tiny garden.
- 2021 May 19, “Network News: Level crossing closed after latest near miss”, in RAIL, number 931, page 18:
- NR was already planning safety work on the crossing this summer. Its teams will now install wicket gates closer to the railway, allowing people to make better decisions about whether it is safe to cross.
Synonyms
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[edit]a small gate or door, especially one built into a large one
See also
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wicket gate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
