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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1851
|Year Number=6
|Headline=Word-man Noah Webster Acknowledges Only Wicket
|Headline=Word-man Noah Webster Acknowledges Only Wicket
|Year=1851
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Tags=Famous,
|Country=United States
|Game=Wicket
|Game=Wicket
|Tags=Famous
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Notables=Noah Webster
|Text=<p>"Wicket, n. A small gate; a gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied; a bar or rod, used in playing wicket."</p>
|Text=<p>"Wicket, n. A small gate; a gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied; a bar or rod, used in playing wicket."</p>
<p>Noah Webster, <u>A Dictionary of he English Language, Abridged from the American Dictionary</u> (Huntington and Savage, New York, 1851), page 399. Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search ("used in playing wicket"). No other ballgames are carried in this dictionary. Webster was from Connecticut.</p>
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|Sources=<p>Noah Webster,&nbsp;<span>A Dictionary of the English Language, Abridged from the American Dictionary</span>&nbsp;(Huntington and Savage, New York, 1851), page 399.Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search ("used in playing wicket").&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>No other ballgames are carried in this dictionary. Webster was from Connecticut.</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Reviewed=Yes
|Year Number=6
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Coordinates=37.09024, -95.712891
}}
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Word-man Noah Webster Acknowledges Only Wicket

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Game Wicket
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Notables Noah Webster
Text

"Wicket, n. A small gate; a gate by which the chamber of canal locks is emptied; a bar or rod, used in playing wicket."

 

Sources

Noah Webster, A Dictionary of the English Language, Abridged from the American Dictionary (Huntington and Savage, New York, 1851), page 399.Accessed 2/10/10 via Google Books search ("used in playing wicket"). 

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No other ballgames are carried in this dictionary. Webster was from Connecticut.

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