gate 
She to her wagon clombe ; clonibe all the rest, 
And forth together went with Kirov fraught ; . . . 
And all the griesly Monsters of the See 
Stood gaping at their gate, and wondred them to see. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 32. 
5f. Room or opportunity for going forward; 
space to move in. 
Here, ye gomes, gose a rome, giffe vs gate, 
We muste steppe to yone sterne of a-state. 
Ynfk Plays, p. 279. 
Nae gait, nowhere ; in no direction or place. [Scotch.] 
Wae were the hearts [in merry Carlisle], 
For she was nae yait found. 
Child Rowland (Child's Ballads, I. 246). 
To take one's gait, to take or go one's own way ; be off. 
gate 2 t (gat), v. i. [<0afe2 )M .] Togo. Davies. 
Three stags sturdye were vnder 
Neere the seacost ffatinff, theym slot thee clusterus lieerd- 
flock 
In greene frith browsing. Slanihurst, jEneid, i. 190. 
gate 3 (gat), n. An archaic or dialectal form of 
goat. 
So schooled the Gate her wanton sonne, 
That answerd his mother, All should be done. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., May. 
gate-bill (gat'bil), n. In English universities, 
the record of an undergraduate's failure to be 
within his college at or before a specified hour 
of the night. 
To avoid gate-bills, he will he out at night as late as he 
pleases, . . . climb over the college walls, and fee his Gyp 
well. Gradus ad Cantab., p. 128. 
gate-chamber (gat'eham''ber), . A recess, as 
in a wall, into which a gate folds, 
gate-channel (gat'chan'el), . Same as gate 1 , 
5 (a). 
gated (ga'ted), a. [< gate 1 + -erf 2 .] Having 
gates. 
Thy mountains moulded into forms of men, 
Thy hundred-(/a(ed capitals. 
Young, Night Thoughts, ix. 
Broken at intervals by gated sluiceways. 
L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 201. 
gate-end (gat'end), . In coal-mining, the inby 
end of a gate. [Eng.] -Gate-end plate, in coal- 
mining, a large iron plate upon which the mine-cars or 
trams are turned round when they come from the stall- 
face, in order to be taken along the gate. I Eng.] 
gate-fine (gat 'fin), n. In English universi- 
ties, a fine imposed upon an undergraduate 
who violates the restrictions under which he is 
laid by being gated. See gate 1 , v. t., 2. 
gate-gbingt (gat'go"ing), n. Wayfaring. 
Then came up visions, miracles, dead spirits, walking, 
and talking how they might be released by this mass, by 
that pilgrimage gate-going. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1858), II. 293. 
gate-hook (gat'huk), . That part of a gate- 
hinge which is driven into the post and supports 
the leaf attached to the gate. 
gate-house (gat'hous), . A house at a gate, 
(a) A porter's lodge or house at the entrance to the grounds 
of a mansion, institution, etc. (b) Especially, in arch.,& 
structure over or beside the gate giving entrance to a city, 
castle, abbey, college, etc., and forming a guard-house or 
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But his [the king's] messenger, being carried to the Earl 
of Essex, was by him used very roughly, and by the houses 
committed to the gatehouse, not without the motion of 
snme men that he might be executed as a spy. 
Clarendon, Civil War, II. 76. 
(c) A small house or lodge used by a person who attends 
the gate at a level crossing on a railroad, (d) A house 
erected over the gate of a reservoir for regulating the flow 
of water. 
gate-keeper (gat'ke'per), n. One who keeps 
a gate, as of a turnpike, race-course, railroad- 
crossing, private grounds, etc. 
gateless (gat'les), a. [< gate 1 + -less.'] With- 
out a gate. 
gateman (gat 'man), n. ; pi. gatemen (-men). 
1. The person who has charge of the opening 
and shutting of a gate, (a) The porter who attends 
to the gate at the entrance to a mansion, institution, etc. 
(b) The person in charge of a gate at a level crossing on 
a railroad. 
2. The lessee or collector at a toll-gate. 
gate-meeting (gat'me"ting), n. A meeting for 
races or athletic contests where gate-money is 
taken. E. D. 
Few of these athletes care to compete at gate-meeting*. 
Daily Sews, July 14, 1881. 
gate-money (gat'mun'i), . The receipts taken 
in at the gate or entrance for admission to an 
athletic contest or other exhibition. 
gate-post (gat'post), n. One of the side-posts 
that support a gate. 
The mountains within this tribe are few, and that of 
Sampson the chiefest; unto which he carried the gate- 
pott of Gaza. Raleigh, Hist World, II. x. i 2. 
gate-road (gat'rod), n. In coal-mining, same as 
gate 1 , 4. [Eng.] 
gate-rowt (gat ro), n. A lane ; a street. Nares. 
To dwell heere in our neighbourhood or gate-row, being 
thereto driven through very povertie. 
Terence, MS. (trans.), 1619. 
gate-saw (gat'sa), n. A saw extended in a gate. 
See gate 1 , 7. 
gate-shutter (gat'shufer), . A spade or pad- 
dle used in founding to prevent the molten 
metal from entering the channel when the mold 
or bed is full, and to turn it into other molds 
or beds. 
gate-tower (gat'tou'er), n. In medieval fort., 
a tower built beside or over a gate, as of a city, 
etc., for the purpose of defending the passage. 
gather 
2. A frame or an arch in which a gate i.s hung: 
sometimes extended to the gate-house or gate- 
tower surmounting or flanking an entrance or 
a gate, and designed for ornament or defense. 
A happy lover who has come 
To look on her that loves him well, 
Who 'lights and rings the gateway bell. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, viii. 
The sculptures of these gateways form a perfect picture 
Bible of Buddhism as it existed in India in the first cen- 
tury of the Christian Era. 
J. Ferguison, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 98. 
Passing beneath the low vaulted gateway, we stood 
within a square place, a complete wilderness of ruins. 
O'Donovan, Merv, xx. 
3. A means of ingress or egress generally 
more frequently of ingress ; an avenue ; a pas- 
sage ; an approach. 
The five gateways of knowledge. 0. Wilson. 
Either Truth is born 
Beyond the polar gleam forlorn, 
Or in the gateways of the morn. 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
4. In coal-mining, same as gate 1 , 4. 
gatewise (gat'wiz), adv. [(.gate 1 + -wise.'] So 
as to resemble a gate or gateway ; in the form 
of a gate. 
Three circles of stones set up gatewise. 
Fuller. 
Vitre, France. 
the abode of the gate-keeper. In the middle ages such 
houses were often large and imposing structures, orna- 
mented with niches, statues, pinnacles, etc., and they were 
generally strongly fortified and well adapted for defense, 
being sometimes used as prisons. 
The gatehouse for a prison was ordain'd, 
When in this land the third king Edward reign'd ; 
Good lodging roomes and diet it affoords, 
But I had rather lye at home on boords. 
John Tai/lor, Works (1630). 
gather (gaTH'er), v. [Early mod. E. gader (the th 
in gather and together, as in father, mother, wea- 
ther, etc., representing an orig. d), < ME. gad- 
eren, gadren, also gederen, gedren, < AS. gade- 
rian, gcederian, gadorigean, gadrian, gasdrian, 
g&drigean (= OFries. gaderia, gaduria, gailriti. 
garia, NFries. geaijen = D. gaderen = LG. gad- 
ern, gaddern = G. dial, gattern), gather, < AS. 
geador, also in cpmp. on-geador, eal-geador, to- 
gether, -gcedere, in comp. ait-gasdere, to-gcedere, 
together (= D. and LG. te gader = MHG. gater, 
together : see together), gader-, gceder-, in comp. 
gader-tang, gceder-tang, continuous, in connec- 
tion ; with adv. suffix -or, -er, from a root which 
appears in AS. gwd (rare and poet.), fellowship, 
gtedeling, a fellow, companion (see gadling 1 ), 
Gate-tower or Barbican, Walmgate Bar, York, England. 
Such structures were often of considerable size and great 
military strength. The famous Bastille at Paris was 
strictly a gate-tower. See barbican^, 1 (b). 
gatetript (gat'trip), . A footstep ; gait ; mode 
of walking. Davies. 
Too moothers counsayl thee fyrye Cupido doth harcken, 
Of puts he his feathers, tailoring with gatetrip lulus. 
Stanihtirst, .Sneid, i. 676. 
gate-valve (gat'yalv), n. A valve used in a 
gas- or water-main ; a stop-valve. 
gate-vein (gat'van), n. [A translation of NL. 
name vena porta. ] The great abdominal vein ; 
the portal vein, or vena portse. See portal and 
vein. 
For he for he, 
Gate-vein of this heart's blood of Lombardy 
(If I should falter now !) for he is thine. 
Browning, Sordello, i. 
gateward 1 (gat'ward), n. [< ME. gateward, 
gateward, yateward, yeteward; (gate 1 + ward, a 
keeper.] The keeper of a gate. 
Now loud the heedful gateward cried 
" Prepare ye all for blows and blood ! " 
Scott, L. of L. M., Iv. 4. 
gateward 2 , gatewards (gat'ward, -wardz), adr. 
[< gate 1 + -ward, -wards.'] Toward a gate or 
the gate. 
gateway (gat'wa), n. 1. A passage; an en- 
trance ; an opening which is or may be closed 
with a gate, as in a fence or wall. 
Old bastions built upon the solid tufa, vast gaping gale- 
ways black in shadow. 
J. A. Syinondt, ItaJy and Greece, p. 96. 
draw together ; assemble ; congregate ; collect ; 
make a collection or aggregation of. 
And aftyr viij Days, whanne they war ageyn gaderyd to 
gedyr, And Seynt Thomas with them, he cam vpon them 
agen. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 87. 
But the blood that is unjustly spilt is not again gath- 
ered up from the ground by repentance.* 
Raleigh, Hist. World, Pref., p. 21. 
Jacob said, . . . Gather stones ; and they took stones, 
and made an heap. Gen. xxxi. 46. 
The thirsty creatures cry, 
And gape upon the gather'd clouds for rain. 
Dryden, Annus Mirabilis. 
I mounted into the window-seat ; gathering up my feet, 
I sat cross-legged like a Turk. 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, i. 
2. To take by selection from among other 
things ; sort out or separate, as what is desired 
or valuable ; cull ; pick ; pluck. 
Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the 
heathen. Ps. cvi. 47. 
Like a rose just gather'd from the stalk, 
But only smelt, and cheaply thrown aside, 
To wither on the ground ! I>ryden, Spanish Friar. 
How much more properly do those men act who . . . 
live by the rales of reason and religion, grow old by de- 
grees, and are gather'd, like ripe sheaves, into the gamer. 
Gilpin, Works, II. 1. 
How sweet, on this autumnal day, 
The wild-wood fruits to gather! 
Wordsworth, Yarrow Visited. 
Many thoughts worth gathering are dropped along these 
pages. 0. W. Holmes, Emerson, xi. 
3. To bring closer together the componentparts 
of ; draw into smaller compass, as a garment ; 
hence, to make folds in, as the brow by con- 
tracting it. 
The men, as well as women, suffer their haire to grow 
long, colour it, and gather it into a net or caule on the top 
of their heads. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 437. 
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, 
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, 
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
The king, with gathered brow, and lips 
Wreathed by long scorn, did inly sneer and frown. 
Shelley, Revolt of Islam, v. 23. 
Madame De Mauves disengaged her hand, gathered her 
shawl, and smiled at him. 
H. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 490. 
Hence 4. In sewing, to full or shirr (a piece of 
cloth) by running a thread through it and then 
drawing it in small puckers by means of the 
thread. 
