wicket

英 ['w?k?t] 美['w?k?t]

中頻詞暢通詞匯

復數:?wickets;

wicket 三柱門

來自PIE*weik,彎，轉，編織，詞源同wicker,vicarious.引申詞義小門，籬笆門，后用于指板球的三柱門。詞義演變比較hurdle.

wicket: 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.

2. Defending his wicket watchfully, the last man is playing out time.: 最后一名球員小心地守著他的三柱門, 直到比賽結束.