wicken (wikn)

[Appar. connected with wick1, wicker1, witch - elm, etc.; but early forms have not been found.] rowan-tree, Pyrus Aucuparia. rus Aucuparia. Also wicky. wicken-tree (wik'n-trē), n. Same as wicken. wickerl (wik'er), n. and a. [Also dial. wigger; widdy half-high door. E. H. Knight . - 5t. A hole or opening. Wickettes two or three thou make hem couthe, That yf a wicked worme oon holes mouthe Besiege or stoppe, an other open be, And from the wicked worme thus save thi bee. (vögre-kurv, vegre - kurv, wicker-basket), vægger, a icker-basket), væger, willow; cf. Bav. dial. wickel, bunch of tow on a distaff, caff, G. wickel, a roll; ult. Wood , Athenæ Oxon., I. ( Richardson .) For want of a pannier, spit your fish by the gills on a small wicker or such like. W. Lauson (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 197). Aye wavering like the willow- wicker , Tween good and ill. Burns, On Life. 2. Wickerwork in general; hence, an object made of this material, as a basket. Then quick did dre His half milk up for cheese, and in a pre Of wicker pre 'd it. Chapman, Ody ey, ix. 351. Each [maiden] having a white wicker , overbrimm'd With April's tender younglings. Keats , Endymion, i. 3. A twig or branch used as a mark: same as wike3 . II. a. 1. Consisting of wicker; especially, made of plaited twigs or osiers; also, covered with wickerwork: as, a wicker basket; a wicker chair. Robin Hood swam to a bush of broo me, The fryer to a wigger wand. Robin Hood and the Curtall Fryer (Child's Ballads, V. 274). The lady was placed in a large wicker chair, and her feet wrapped up in flannel, supported by cushions. Steele, Tatler, No. 266. The doll, seated in her little wicker carriage. Hawthorne , Scarlet Letter, Int., p. 40. 2. Made of flexible strips of shaved wood, ratan, or the like: as, wicker furniture; a wicker chair. wicker1t (wik'er), v. t. [ He looks like a musty bottle new wickered . B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, i. 1. Thir Ships of light timber, Wickerd with Oysier betweene, and coverd over with Leather, serv'd not therefore to trance port them farr. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. wicker2 (wik'er), v. [Cf. wicker1.] I. in trans . To twist, from being too tightly drawn. Child's Ballads , Glo . The nurice she knet the knot, And O she knet it sicker; The ladie did gie it a twig [twitch], Till it began to wicker . IMG:content-2362.png:[blocks in formation] wickered (wik'erd), a. [ side, batsman consists The wicket was formerly two straight thin battons called stumps, twenty-two inches high, which were fixed into the ground perpendicularly six inches apart, and over the top of both was laid a small round piece of wood called the bail. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 175. A desperate fight.. between the drovers and the farmers with their whips and the boys with cricket-bats and wickets. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 4. (b) A batsman's tenure of his wicket. If the batting side pa their opponents' full score with (say) six players to be put out, they are said to win "by six wick ets "-a colloquial abbreviation for "with six wickets to go down." (c) The ground on which the wickets are set: as, play was begun with an excellent wicket.-7. In coal-mining. See wicket - work . wicket-door (wik'et-dor), n. A wicket. Through the low wicket - door they glide. Scott , Rokeby, v. 29. wicket-gate (wik'et-gāt), n. A small gate; a wicket. I am going to yonder wicket - gate before me. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , i. wicket-keeper (wik'et-kē"pėr), n . In cricket, the player belonging to the fielding side who stands in immediately behind the wicket to stop such balls as pa it. See diagram under cricket2. "I'm your man," said he. " Wicket - keeper , cover-point, slip, or long-stop-you bowl the twisters, I'll do the fielding for you." Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. xiii. The