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'wicket gate' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a small gate within a larger gate or fencing, often part of a larger system that uses a complex locking system. For example, "The old man unlocked the wicket gate to open the path to the garden."
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wicket gate
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A small gate or door, especially one built into a large one.
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4. Cross over the footbridge then through the wicket gate into the field.
This paper covers several aspects of the design, manufacturing, testing, analysis, and field implementation of a novel integrated FRP wicket gate in Mississippi River lock and dam.
Pass through a wicket gate, and keep on this track across the field to the fence side and a fingerpost.
Proceeding up Constitution Hill, he had arrived nearly opposite the wicket gate leading into the Green Park, when he met Miss Ellis, one of Lady Dover's daughters.
At Cougar Dam, at least 50% fewer releases experienced severe collisions in the runner region operating at peak efficiency than at the minimum and maximum opening, indicating the wicket gate opening could affect hydraulic conditions in the runner region.
The shear pins, which are installed in the turbine hydraulic arms to control the wicket gate and regulate the water flow into the turbine blades, suffered several breakdowns since 2004.
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The girls opened the unlocked wicket gates and walked on to the crossing.
In December 2000 the wicket gates of Arapuni Unit G7 closed rapidly when a control arm separated from a shaft and the wickets were free to move.
This enables part of the water in the line to pass into the surge chamber when the wicket gates are rapidly closed or opened.
While we're so close to our first choice that you could run a cricket wicket between its entrance gate and our doorstep – well, not quite, but you get what I mean – there's no part of the country with a 100percentt success rate of number one option provision.
The burly all-rounder fell in the next over for 25 as Ravichandran Ashwin found some appreciable turn to bowl him through the gate and the final three wickets were quickly taken for the addition of only 10 runs.
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