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| 1. n. A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one. |  |
| 2. n. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating. | |
| 3. n. (British) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a ticket barrier at a rail station. | |
| 4. n. (cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman. | |
| 5. n. (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out. | |
| 6. n. (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together. | |
| 7. n. (cricket) The pitch. | |
| 8. n. (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand. | |
| 9. n. (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven. | |
| 10. n. (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to. | |
| 11. n. (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen. | |
| 12. n. (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working. | |
| 13. n. (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML. | |
