gate gat, gaytt, yate, yet

[A. S. geat = a gap, an opening; cogn. with Dut. gat = a hole, an opening; Icel. gat =an opening: gat a =a way, a street; Sw. gatá = a street, a lane; Dan.gade a street; Goth. gatuo; Ger. ga e; O. H. Ger. gaza, gazza; M. H. Ger. gazze. The root is seen in A. S. git an toget, to arrive at. ( Skeat.)] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) A way, a road, a path, an avenue, a pa age, a street. (2) A way, a manner, a fashion. *(3) A proce ion. "All the griesly monsters of the sea Stood gaping at their gate ." Spenser: F. Q., III. iv. 32. (4) A large door, giving entrance to any large building, court, or place. (5) A light open frame of timber or metal, used to open or close the entrance into an inclosure of any kind, as a field, a garden, a courtyard; such a frame extending acro a road, as at a turnpike, a level cro ing, . 2. Figuratively : (1) Anything which shuts or bars a pa age. "I was going to be an honest man, but the devil has this day flung first a lawyer, then a woman in my gate ."Sir W. Scott. (2) An entrance, an opening. "Swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body." Shakesp.: Hamlet , i. 5. (3) An entrance, an opening, an opportunity. II. Technically : 1. Carp .: A sash or frame in which a saw is extended to prevent buckling or bending. 2. Locksmith .: One of the apertures in the tumbler for the pa age of the stub. 3. Founding: (1) An ingate. The aperture in a mold through which the metal is poured. The runner conducts the metal from the ingate to the hollow in the mold, where it forms a casting. The piece of metal which occupies the ingate and runner is called a sprue, and is knocked off the casting. (2) The sprue or piece of metal cast in the gate; a sullage-piece. 4. Hydraulic Engineering: (1) The valve which admits the water to the bucket of the water-wheel (q. v.). (2) A sluice, admitting or shutting off water to or from a lock or dock. To stand in the gate or gates : Scrip .: To occupy a position of advantage or defense. IMG:content-0356.png:[blocks in formation]