Swinging door in a garden
Publish date: 2024-05-20
| • | A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed. |
| • | An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit. |
| • | A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc. |
| • | The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might. |
| • | In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into. |
| • | The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. |
| • | The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. |
| • | To supply with a gate. |
| • | To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual. |
| • | A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). |
| • | Manner; gait. |
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