Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
WICKET, n. Also misprint or erroneous wicker. Sc. usage: a small unglazed window or opening, a loophole in a wall. Obs. in Eng.Dmf. 1746 R. Edgar Hist. Dmf. (1915) 35:
Four large vaults with small wickers of light.Ayr. 1833 J. McKillop Poems (1870) 75:
His paws into a wicket gaed, An' there he stuck.Kcb. 1895 Crockett Bog-Myrtle 375:
Like all Lowland barns, ours has got a row of three-cornered unglazed windows, called “wickets.”
