What is the meaning of GATE. Phrases containing GATE
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, as in “Give her the gate†The door, as in leave
Pearly gates is slang for teeth.
Gatemouth is Black−American slang for gossiper
Pearly gate is London Cockney rhyming slang for a dinner plate.
Someone who can't play.That cat swings like a rusty gate.
Gates of Rome is London Cockney rhyming slang for home.
Switch a train onto or off a siding. Close the gate means to close the switch after the train has passed it
Golden gater is Hollywood slang for an awful, unredeemable script.
Switch
Garden gates was old British slang for rates.
Early term for a Jazz musician.Armstrong is the original Swing Jazz player that's why they call used to call him "Gate."
eight pounds (£8), cockney rhyming slang for eight, naturally extended to eight pounds. In spoken use 'a garden' is eight pounds. Incidentally garden gate is also rhyming slang for magistrate, and the plural garden gates is rhyming slang for rates. The word garden features strongly in London, in famous place names such as Hatton Garden, the diamond quarter in the central City of London, and Covent Garden, the site of the old vegetable market in West London, and also the term appears in sexual euphemisms, such as 'sitting in the garden with the gate unlocked', which refers to a careless pregnancy.
The Gate is British slang for the Notting Hill Gate district of London.
Gate as a slang term for talk and gaiters being the lower leggings worn by sailors. The phrase is used to describe someone or something that is all show with no real substance.
Gate arrest is British slang for arresting a prisoner as he leaves prison for another offence.
Gate fever is British slang for nervousness felt by prisoners towards the end of their sentence.
Gate of life was old British slang for the vagina.
Gate is a slang suffix for a scandal. Gate is slang for the mouth.Gate is Black−American slang for a jazz musician or other hip person.
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A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.
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A house connected or associated with a gate.
v. i.
To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
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A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.
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A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.
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Having gates.
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A gate where toll is taken.
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To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
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In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.
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The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
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To supply with a gate.
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In the manner of a gate.
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Having no gate.
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A gate keeper; a gate tender.
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A passage through a fence or wall; a gate; also, a frame, arch, etc., in which a gate in hung, or a structure at an entrance or gate designed for ornament or defense.
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To remove the bar or bards of, as a gate; to under.
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To remove (something hanging or swinging) from that which supports it; as, to unhang a gate.
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A post against which a gate closes; -- called also shutting post.
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To remove a bar or bars from; to unbolt; to open; as, to unbar a gate.
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