ˈwicket-gate
[gate n.1]
= wicket 1.
| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. vi. 92 To wynne vp þe wiket-ȝat þat þe wey schutte. 1678 Bunyan Pilgr. i. 10 That side of the Slough, that was..next to the Wicket-gate. 1833 Loudon Encycl. Archit. §316 A wicket gate, separating the yard from the passage. 1838 Dickens O. Twist xxxiv, A garden, whence a wicket-gate opened into a small paddock. 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet i. i, She opened the little wicket-gate which led to the vicarage garden, and passed in. |
| fig. 1891 Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xxii, So Nero deliberately chose the evil and refused the good, and the narrow wicket-gate of repentance was closed behind him. |