Gate (?), n. [OE. et, eat, giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v. Cf. Gate a way in the wall, 3d Get.]
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 gate, horse way and footpath.
Shak.
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, ∨ gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.
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Gate, v. 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.
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Gate, n. [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatwo, G. gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.]
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.]
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