A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
He then pushed on at full speed, and at last got into the village; and just as they were on the point of catching hold of the horse, he sprung in through the farmer's gate, and the man slapt the wicket after him.
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A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:
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(Britain, Canada) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller.
: As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket.
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