Gate

[A. S. grat, gat; Dut. gat, a hole; Icel. gat a, a way, path; Sansk. gavta, a way; root ga, to go.] A large door which gives entrance into a walled city or large edifice; also, the entrance; a frame of timber, iron, ., which opens or closes a pa age into any inclosure; also, the pa age. - The frame which shuts or stops the pa age of water through a dam, lock, .; an avenue. ( Script .) Power; dominion. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." - Matt . xvi. 18. (Founding.) The gutter or ridge through which the molten metal is poured. -In Scotland, a provincialism for a way, path, or pa age. Gat'ed, a . Having gates. Gate'-house, n. A structure forming the entrance to a park, or nobleman's demesne. (Now generally called lodge.) A house torming an entrance to a private man- sion, or to any palace, public building, . Gate'house, a river-port of Scotland, co. Kirkcud- bright, on the Fleet, 28 m. S.W. of Dumfries. Trade. Agricultural. Pop . 1,798. Gates, HORATIO, an American officer, B. in England, 1728. He served with distinction in the British army till the year 1763, when he bought an estate in Virginia, where he resided until the organization of the continental army in 1773. Appointed adjutant-general with the rank of brigadier, he accompanied Washington to Cambridge in July, 1775, and, in June, 1776, received the chief command of the army which had just retreated from Canada. In Oct., 1777, the surrender of the British army at Saratoga gave to him a brilliant military repute, soon after blasted by the disastrous battle of Camden, Aug. 1780. He was then superseded by Gen. Greene, and it was only after the surrender of Cornwall is that he was restored to his military position. On the conclusion of peace, he returned to his estate in Virginia, whence, after emancipating all his slaves, he removed to the city of New York. Died in 1806. Gates, in Mi ouri , a post-office of Greene co. Gates, in N. Carolina , a N. N. E. co., bordering on Vir- ginia; area , about 360 sq. m. Rivers . Not to way, Meher- rin, and Chowan rivers. Surface , level; soil , fertile. Cap . Gatesville. Pop . (1890) 10,252. Gates, in New York , a post-town of Monroe co., 3 m. W. of Rochester. Pop . (1897) about 3,200. Gates, or Gates' Mills, in Ohio , a post-village of Cuyahoga co., on the Chagrin river, about 16 m. E. of Cleveland. Gates'head, a borough of England, co. Durham, on the S. bank of the Tyne, which divides it from Newcastle, 275 m. N. of London. Manuf . Iron-smelting, working, and gla . Pop . (1895) 87,790. Gates'ville, in N. Carolina , a post-village, cap. of Gates co., on Chowan river, abt. 140 m. N. E. of Raleigh. Gates'ville, in New York , a village of Washington co., about 53 m. N. by E. of Albany. Gates'ville, in Texas , a city, cap. of Coryell co., on Leon river, 80 m. N. of Austin. Pop . (1897) about 2,650. Gate'-vein, n . ( Anat . ) The vena porta , which conveys the blood to the liver.