Wicket-gate

[GATE sb.¹] = WICKET 1.

1362.  Langl., P. Pl., A. VI. 92. To wynne vp þe wiket-ȝat þat þe wey schutte.

1678.  Bunyan, Pilgr., I. 10. That side of the Slough, that was … next to the Wicket-gate.

1833.  Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 316. A wicket gate, separating the yard from the passage.

1838.  Dickens, O. Twist, xxxiv. A garden, whence a wicket-gate opened into a small paddock.

1881.  Besant & Rice, Chapl. Fleet, I. i. She opened the little wicket-gate which led to the vicarage garden, and passed in.

  fig.  1891.  Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xxii. So Nero deliberately chose the evil and refused the good, and the narrow wicket-gate of repentance was closed behind him.