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Wik(k)it, Wikke(i)t, Wykket, n. Also: wikett, vikat, vikket, wickit, -at, -et, -ed, weket, weiket(t. [ME and e.m.E. wykett (1296), wicat (13th c.), wiket (a1300), wicket (a1400-50), wekett (a1483), AF wiket, OF guichet.] A small door or gate, chiefly or only one in or beside a large door or gate for use when it is closed. Usu. permitting entrance to or exit from a town. Also attrib. and comb. b. fig.or in fig. context. c. A door giving access to the weights of a clock.(a) a1500 Sir Eger 1789.
In at the castle yate Syne throgh a wicket 1513 Doug. ii viii 29.
A smal wykket [Sm. wickat, Ruddim. wikkit] thar was, or entre dern, A litil ȝet clepit a postern 1537–8 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 226.
Ane grete stok lok to the vikat of the bak yet 1547 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. II 131.
That the wikket of the West Port stand oppin quhill sevin houris at evin 1557 Peebles B. Rec. I 241.
Johne Cranstoun to restore the half of the wikket of the Briggait port quhilk he hes 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 175.
Ane of captane Mitchallis suddartis devysit to open ane litle yeat or wickit 1576 Prot. Bk. W. Cumming 179.
The mekyll for ȝet with the vikket 1588 Glasgow B. Rec. I 120.
[The] wickit of the Grayfreir port to be patent to the nichtbouris besyd 1608–9 Crim. Trials III 42.
Wikit 1608–9 Crim. Trials III 42.
Wikett 1644 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 20.
To caus build ane port of timber with ane wicket 1653–4 Peebles B. Rec. II 196.
To William Heislope [etc.] … for their wages at the North Port and Watter Port … mair to them and the men that was helping … at the Watter wicked 1665 Edinb. B. Rec. X 3.
The … scholleris of the colledge may have a passage throw the wickets of the Potterrow and Societie ports to the churche 1682 Fraser Polichron. 131.
Wickat(b) 1581–2 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 232.
Jhone Harwod, dene of gild, to caus … mak ane weiket to the vtter yett of the over yaird 1592–3 Edinb. B. Rec. V 81.
Weket 1608–9 Crim. Trials III 42.
To cloise and loik the weikett of the inner-ȝettattrib. 1626 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 201.
For ane pair of wickit bandiscomb. 1558-66 Knox I 175.
The workemen … ran of the wallis and war without hurte put furth at the wicked yett [G. wickit yet]b. c1515 Asl. MS I 322/1.
Our Lady quhilk consauit with clene virginite and vnbrokin … and as the portis war closed on Daniel sa was the wikkeit of the Virgin fra syn 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 911.
The sillye nonnis did ȝeild thame haistelye … Ressauand thame, thay kest vp wykketis wyde Than Chaistytie walde no langer abyde 1663 Mackenzie Religio Stoici (1665) xii 96.
Nothing is roomed in our judgement and apprehension but what first entered by the wicket of sensec. 1616 Aberd. B. Rec. II 341.
And sall build ane voyd … for letting doun the paissis frome the knock … with ane litill wicket at the nethermost pairt of the said voyd to luik in to the paissis