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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. Twis...
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Wicket gate
A wicket gate, or simply a wicket, is a pedestrian door or gate, particularly one built into a larger door or into a wall or fence. Use in fortifications Wickets are typically small, narrow doors either alongside or within a larger castle or city gate. The latter were often double gates, large and h...
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wicket
▪ I. wicket (ˈwɪkɪt) Forms: [3 wicat], 3–5 wykett(e, 3–6 wyket, wiket, 4–5 wikett, wekett, 4–6 wykket(t, wycket, wickett, 5 wickette, wekyt, (wigate), 5–6 weket, 6 weiket, 5– wicket. [a. AF. = ONF. wiket (Norman viquet, Walloon wichet) = OF. (mod.F.) guichet; usually referred to the Teut. root appea...
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South-East Asia campaign of Rajendra Chola I
The Tamil inscription lists Sri Vijaya with "its jewelled wicket-gate" and "a gate of large jewels" as the first of the treasures captured by the fleet
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police station
police station The office or head-quarters of a local police force, or of a police district. Also attrib.1846 Dickens Pictures from Italy 53 The hall..is as dirty as a police-station in London. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Police-station, the receiving⁓house where offenders are taken by the police; th...
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Ternopil Castle
On the southern perimeter the three-story New Castle was constructed, a new Gate House was erected incorporating narrow wicket-gate and two masonry pylons
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God's House Hospital
He would step out of his house, through the wicket-gate, at once upon a pier or quay, against which the waters lapped at high tide, and where the official
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whence
whence, adv., conj. (n.) (hwɛns) Forms: 4–5 whannes, whennes, (4 huannes, wannes, whennus, -ys), 4–6 whens, 5 qwens, 6 whense, Sc. quhens, quhence, 6– whence. [13th c. ME. whannes, whennes, f. whanne, whenne + -s suffix1. In all senses often preceded by redundant from, † fro (from 15 a), occas. of (...
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