There's no sign of a struggle in the church but the facial bruising is consistent with his being forced against the wicket door.

The squeak of the wicket door made them both look around.

Outside, men's voices echoed in the street, and the wicket door flew open.

Inside the south porch is a wicket door, the only known one in an American colonial church.

He let them out by the wicket door while the brothers were at Matins.

A few minutes later the black slave let them through the wicket door.

A wicket door opened in the gate and a face peered out.

The only way in is through the main gate-or the little wicket door.

He had found the wicket door, and, in an emergency, could use it as an exit.

The wicket door had been an entrance, not to a level vestibule but to a flight of steps that led directly down to the cellar.