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Webster 1913 Edition
Gate
Gate
(gāt)
, Noun.
1.
A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
2.
An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
Knowest thou the way to Dover?
Both stile and
Both stile and
gate
, horse way and footpath. Shakespeare
Opening a
gate
for a long war. Knolles.
3.
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
4.
(Script.)
The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
The
gates
of hell shall not prevail against it. Matt. xvi. 18.
5.
In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
6.
(Founding)
(a)
The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
(b)
The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
[Written also
geat
and git
.] Gate chamber
, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate.
– Gate channel
. See
– Gate
, 5. Gate hook
, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge.
– Gate money
, entrance money for admission to an inclosure.
– Gate tender
, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing.
– Gate valva
, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open.
– Gate vein
(Anat.)
, the portal vein.
– To break gates
(Eng. Univ.)
, to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.
– To stand in the gate
or To stand in the gates
to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.
Gate
,Verb.
T.
1.
To supply with a gate.
2.
(Eng. Univ.)
To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
Gate
,Noun.
1.
A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
[O. Eng. & Scot.]
I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my
gate
. Sir W. Scott.
2.
Manner; gait.
[O. Eng. & Scot.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Gate
GATE
, n.1.
A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace or other large edifice. It differs from door chiefly in being larger. Gate signifies both the opening or passage, and the frame of boards, planks or timber which closes the passage.2.
A frame of timber which opens or closes a passage into any court, garden or other inclosed ground; also, the passage.3.
The frame which shuts or stops the passage of water through a dam into a flume.4.
An avenue; an opening; a way.In scripture, figuratively, power, dominion. 'Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;' that is, towns and fortresses. Gen.22.
The gates of hell, are the power and dominion of the devil and his instruments. Matt.16.
The gates of death, are the brink of the grave. Ps.9.