Wicker vs Wicket - What's the difference?
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A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture
Wickerwork.
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Made of wickerwork.
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A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.
A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
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(British) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a (ticket barrier) at a rail station.
(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.
(cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
(cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
(cricket) The pitch.
(cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
(croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
(skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
(US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
(mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
(Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.
As nouns the difference between wicker and wicket
is that wicker is a wizard while wicket is a small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.wicker
English
Noun
(en noun)- Then quick did dress / His half milk up for cheese, and in a press / Of wicker pressed it.
Derived terms
* wickerwork * rewicker * Wicker ManSee also
* basket * cradle English terms with homophonesAdjective
(-)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
wicket
English
Noun
(en noun)- As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket .
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