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wicket

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Definition:
a small door, window or opening built into a large door

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“I acknowledge I have been too hasty,” said Manfred. “Father, do you go to the wicket, and demand who is at the gate.”

Horace Walpole. The Castle of Otranto (1764)
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We entered this haven through a wicket-gate, and were disgorged by an introductory passage into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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I walked round the yard, and through a wicket, to another door, at which I took the liberty of knocking, in hopes some more civil servant might show himself.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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"I understand that the yew hedge is penetrated at one point by a gate?"
"Yes, the wicket-gate which leads on to the moor."

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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Dolokhov, after Anatole entered, had remained at the wicket gate and was struggling with the yard porter who was trying to lock it.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman. Simon & Schuster
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he endeavoured to struggle to that side of the Slough that was still further from his own house, and next to the Wicket-gate; the which he did, but could not get out, because of the Burden that was upon his back:

John Bunyan. Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
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