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† leap-gate Obs.
Forms: 1 hlýpᵹeat, 4 lipȝet, 5 lypȝet(e, -zet, 7 leap-yeat.
[f. leap n.1 + gate n.1]
A low gate in a fence, which can be leaped by deer, while keeping sheep from straying.
980in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 180/28 Ondlang ᵹeardes on ðæt hlypᵹeat. 13..Eulog. Hist. (Rolls) III. 224 Fuit ibi una porta quæ vocatur in lingua Anglicana lipȝet [v. rr. 14.. lypȝete, lypzet]. 1609in S. Rowe Peramb. Dartmoor (1848) 278 The corne hedges and leape yeates rounde aboute the same Common and fforest. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §215 (1810) 223 The correction of the..ditches, and leap⁓yeats, shall be in the court. |