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wicket gates

wicket gates is the plural of wicket gate.

Meaning of wicket gate

Noun

wicket gate (plural wicket gates)

  1. A small gate or door, especially one built into a large one.
    • 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.1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, “Walter Hartright/XV”, in The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1860, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    wicket

Questions about wicket gates

What is wicket gates the plural of?
Wicket gates is the plural of wicket gate.

Words near wicket gates in the dictionary

  1. wickerworks
  2. Wickes
  3. wickest
  4. wicket
  5. wicket gate
  6. wicket gates
  7. wicket keeper
  8. wicket keepers
  9. wicket maiden
  10. wicket maidens
  11. wicket taker

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