gateend (gatend)

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. [Eng.] gate-fine (gāt'fin), n. In English universities, a fine imposed upon an undergraduate who violates the restrictions under which he is laid by being gated. See gatel, v. t., 2. gate-goingt (gāt gō"ing), n. Wayfaring. Then came up visions, miracles, dead spirits, walking, and talking how they might be released by this ma , by that pilgrimage gate - going . J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 293. gate-hook (gāt'hük), n. That part of a gate hinge which is driven into the post and supports the leaf attached to the gate. gate-house (gāt'hous), n. 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., a structure over or beside the gate giving entrance to a city, castle, abbey, college, etc., and forming a guard-house or Gate-house.-Porte de Joigny, Vitré, France. IMG:content-2138.png:[blocks in formation] 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 barbican1 , 1 (b). gatetript (gat'trip), n. A footstep; gait; mode of walking. Davies . Too moothers counsayl thee fyrye Cupido doth harcken, Of puts he his feathers, fauoring with gate trip Iulus. Stan i hurst , Æneid, i. 675. gate-valve (gāt'valv), n. A valve used in a gas or water-main; a stop-valve. gate-vein (gatvān), n. [A translation of NL. name vena porta .] The great abdominal vein; the portal vein, or vena portsæ. See portal and vein. For hefor he, Gate-vein of this heart's blood of Lombardy (If I should falter now!) - for he is thine. Browning , Sordello, i.