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geat
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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Knowest thou the way to Dover?
Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. --Shak.
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Opening a gate for a long war. --Knolles.
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3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage
of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
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4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or
access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
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The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
--Matt. xvi.
18.
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5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt
to pass through or into.
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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.]
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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.
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Geat
(gcide) | Geat \Geat\ (g[=e]t), n. [See Gate a door.] (Founding)
The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a
mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]
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figeater
(encz) | figeater, n: |
Dogeate
(gcide) | Dogeate \Doge"ate\, n.
Dogate. --Wright.
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Figeater
(gcide) | Figeater \Fig"eat`er\, n. (Zool.)
(a) A large beetle (Allorhina nitida) which in the Southern
United States destroys figs. The elytra are velvety green
with pale borders.
(b) A bird. See Figpecker.
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Geat
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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Knowest thou the way to Dover?
Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath. --Shak.
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Opening a gate for a long war. --Knolles.
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3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage
of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
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4. (Script.) The places which command the entrances or
access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
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The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
--Matt. xvi.
18.
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5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt
to pass through or into.
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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.]
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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.
[1913 Webster]Geat \Geat\ (g[=e]t), n. [See Gate a door.] (Founding)
The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a
mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]
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Orangeat
(gcide) | Orangeat \Or`an*geat"\, n. [F., fr. orange.]
Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.
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Orgeat
(gcide) | Orgeat \Or"geat\, n. [F., fr. orge barley, L. hordeum.]
A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered,
but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, --
used to flavor beverages or edibles.
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figeater
(wn) | figeater
n 1: large greenish June beetle of southern United States [syn:
green June beetle, figeater] |
ABIGEAT
(bouvier) | ABIGEAT, civ. law, A particular kind of larceny, which is committed not by
taking and carrying away the property from one place to another, but by
driving a living thing away with an intention of feloniously appropriating
the same. Vide Taking.
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