GAT 
GATE, or Gait, i in the oe Se called in French frain, is 
ufed for the going or pace 
Gate, ina Miltary Senfey is is made of ftrong planks, with 
iron bars, ta oppofe an enemy. They are generally made 
in the middle of the curtin, from whence they are feen, and 
defended by the ae a cf the ae ce 
red 
fied place, are paflage Sleek the rampart, w hic y be 
fhut or opened by means of ‘doors and a pomeulln, a They 
are either private or public 
rivate gates are thofe paflages by which the troops can 
go out-of the town unfeen the enemy, when they pats 
to and from is relief of the duty in the outworks, or on 
any other occafion which is to be concealed from a be- 
fiegers. 
Public gates are thofe paffages through the middle 
fuch curtins, to which the great roads or public ways lead. 
The dimenfions of thefe are ufually about thirteen or four- 
a feet high, and nine or ten feet wide, continued through 
® rampart, bias nae wed recefles for foot paffengers to ftand . 
of the of haa carriages, ‘ront of the 
S te-wa: on the outfide only ornamented with 
architeture either of the Tufcan o or Doric order: and ove 
_ ease which covers the paflage, | ‘clofe to the oe wall, 
in which the eae ail is fufpended ; ae on thie infide of 
the rampar 
t there : Earp another building, of about a 
hundred ee in fron hirty deep, and high enough to 
contain one or two oors of rooms for one of the town offi- 
cers ; the ground floor ferving for guard-rooms for the troops 
on duty at the gate. See Harrow, Hersr, Orcan, and 
ay vera 
ground, ufed by the minors. Drift, audit, gallery, augle, 
=~ brough, fough, ee are words of Ge fimilar 
import. 
GATE, Poffern. See SALLY-port. 
Gate of the Sea, or a Sea-gate, is ufed when two fhips lie 
aboard one another in a wave or billow, and by that means 
— times ‘become ae -bro 
E, in Scripture Lan ne is ufed to denote the Sa 
of public afb, where juitice was oe ed. 
Xvi. 5, 8. xxv. 6, 7.x ae 19. X 
aa ues in the fields, Sauce were held at the city- 
Ae -and ieee was adminiftered Aearee that labourers, who 
ates.’ 
‘among the Romans, 
and ta the »yoex ae the Greeks; which was the name 
tells at what low rate pro uld ie fold » on the 
morrow, in the gate of oe. (2 nae vii. 1) In the 
latter fenfe, Ifrael is exhorted to “execute the judgment of 
truth and peace in her gates.” (Zech. viii. 16.) In either 
fenfe, that is, as denoting, in general, a place of public con- 
courfe, the word is ufed; when it is faid of the virtuous 
woman, “ Give her of the sired of her eps a let her 
owa works praife her m the —. oe te 3Ee 
Fence gate, porta, ee figaifes pow er oad dom 
and in a fimilar fenfe the Turkith canaoe ’y palace is call fd 
of 
which fee. 
»in Mining, de a paflage or pastas under- _ 
u 
een 
g the Hel brews vas . 
cat 
a Porte. ‘Thus, 
ot prevail 
10. 
ehurch, and fA gua of hell, or Ades, 
See alfo i AXXVIL 
PL i im. 13. evi. 18. Sce ree 
Gares, Opening of, in Aftrology. See ea 
GATEHOUSE iets in Geography, atown of Scot- 
land, in the county of Kircudbright, fituated near the 
mouth of the Fleet, not a a the Trith fea, with a cotton 
manufacture. Sloops come near the town; 13 miles W. 
of Kireudbright. 
EL, a town on the eaft coaft of Mindanao. 
lat. 7° 52', "E. long. 126° 18. 
GATERINA, in Ornithology, a fpecies of Sciena 3 
N. 
in Geography, a county of America, in Edin- 
ton eaftern Ge, North Carolina, bounded north by the 
ate of Virginia, and fou.h by Chowan count It con- 
tains 5881 inhabitants, including 2688 ye Zc miles 
rom Wafhington. he chief town is Hertfo 
A D, a borough and parifh in (ake ward of 
Chefter, azd pres et of Durham ngland. The 
evera 
of the park and Th 1557 cites 
Tunttall a a charter to ec company of Glovers, ar 
in the borough of Gatefh 
incorporated fundry trades ; 
ituted them one commonalty. In the reign of Fig VI. 
this borough was united to Newcaftle ; but in the fucceed- 
ing reign it was reftored to the fee of ‘Durham, &c. Pre- 
us to the former event, it appears, from * Strype’s An- 
that the mayor an efles of the latter place pur- 
d from Thomas Sutton, founder of the Cha rter-houfe 
the ma 
an 
nals,” 
c 
e trade 
: it, however, poffaffes feveral 
cait and wrought iron, 
is ae was itated in the late returns 
at. ae nicae 1101 
ealt fide of the chief ce about half a mile from 
ee a e, are the ruins of St. Edmund’s hofpital, or 
monaftery, fuppofed to occupy the fcite of a monafter ry 
which a eteariom from Bede, to have been eftablithed previous 
to the year 6 
victory was 
onqueror, over or the combined 
forces of Edgar nen and Malcolm, ane of Scot. 
land. Brand’s Hiftory of Newcattle, 2 vols 
GATEWAY, in Rural Econ omy, a pitas ge, or rae 
into am inclofure, which is ufually clofed by a agate. 'T 
{pace for a gateway fhould be from eight to nine ee 
gencral; but a greater width is, in fome cafes, one 
The 
