Definition of "wickets" []

• Plural form of wicket. (noun)

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• "It may be played either as "all strokes," in which the total number of strokes to get through all the wickets is the final score, or as in golf, "all wickets," in which the score for each wicket is taken separately, as each hole in golf is played."
• "It was a cannon-ball, and they fired it out of a cannon, and the wickets was a mile and a half apart -- no, a mile and a quarter -- and one man hit the ball, and the other men shouted, "Run it out!" and he ran sixty-four runs."
• "I think he needs to get a long run in the team even if he isn't taking bags of wickets, which is easy to do if the team is performing."