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▪ I. gat1|gæt|
Also gate.
[app. a. ON. gat (Da., Sw. gat) opening, passage: see gate n.1]
An opening between sandbanks; a channel, strait; in Kent, an opening, natural or artificial, in the cliffs, serving as a landing-place.
1723J. Lewis Hist. Tenet (1736) 6 Through these chalky cliffs the inhabitants whose Farms adjoin to them have cut several gates or ways into the sea..But these gates or passages they have been forced to fill up in the time of War. a1805A. Carlyle Autobiog. 163 The three ships which took through the gat or opening between sand-banks, were almost out of sight before we ventured to sail. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Gat, an opening in the great sand-bank which lies at the back of the Yarmouth Roads. 1847Ld. G. Bentinck in Croker Papers (1884) III. xxv. 143 Louis Philippe sent all his war steamers to tug the French ships through the gat of Gibraltar. 1885L. Jackson Our Caughmawagas in Egypt 17, I had to use the tow-line at one place where there was a ‘gate’ (or channel), as we say in Canada.
▪ II. gat2 slang (orig. U.S.).|gæt|
Also gatt.
[Short for Gatling.]
A revolver or other gun.
1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing xiii. 248/2 Gatt, a revolver. 1920[see cap-pistol]. 1928E. Wallace Gunner xviii. 146 Why was a pistol called a gat, he wondered. Probably it was an abbreviation of gatling, and was obviously an Americanism. 1931Wodehouse Big Money xiii. 283 He produced the gat..and poised it in an unsteady but resolute grasp. ‘Hands up!’ he said. 1966Punch 1 June 792/3 The dive he took us to..was as bad as anything Akim Tamaroff ever ran through with his gat blazing.
▪ III. gat
obs. f. gate, goat; pa. tense of get v. |