The only definition, as such, that I could find wasn as the French word for "Wicket". A url to this definition (see "Wicket") from Webster 1913 is:

http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.page.sh?PAGE=1651

Based on this, perhaps it is an old term for the gate from the race course into the birdcage? Just a guess based on the fact that quichet means wicket as in "wicket gate".

HTH


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