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† ˈlidgate Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 hlið-, hlidᵹeat, 5 lidyate, lyde ȝate, 6 lydyate, 9 lidgitt, Sc. and north. dial. liggat(e, ligget.
[OE. hlidᵹeat: see lid n. and gate n.1 The pronunciation is in some dialects (ˈlɪdʒɪt), from the ME. lidȝate, -yate.]
A swing-gate; a gate set up between meadow or pasture and ploughed land or across the highway to prevent cattle from straying.
854in Birch Cartul. Sax. (1887) II. 63 ærest on dic: þonne upp uuið hliðᵹeatas. 909in Earle Land Charters (1888) 290 ærest on icenan æt brombrigce up & lang weᵹes to hlidᵹeate. 1441Plumpton Corr. (Camden) lix, Parte went into the towne of Helperby..and their festned a lid-⁓yate in the highway at the towne end of Helperby toward Yorke, with stoks, thorns, and otherwise. a1450Myrc. 1497 Hast þow ay cast vp lyde ȝate Þere bestus haue go in ate? 1557Scotter Manor Roll in Archæologia (1881) XLVI. 379 That euery man shall sufficiently make their Lydyates in time convenient. 1790J. Fisher Poems 107 They brak' the liggat o' the yard, Ay, a' in smash. 1847Halliwell, Lidgitts,..[Isle of Axholme]. Linc. 1874A. Hislop Sc. Anecd. 325 At another time when ‘right about wheel’ was required, he attained his object by asking them to ‘come round like a ligget, lads!’ 1881J. Younger Autobiog. iv. 35 Her an' the bits o' lasses were out list'ning for us at the head o' the liggate as we came up. |