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geat |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gate \Gate\ (g[=a]t), n. [OE. [yogh]et, [yogh]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 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, or gates}, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Geat \Geat\, n. [See {Gate} a door.] (Founding) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also {git}, {gate}.]