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ˈcow-gate, -gait
[f. cow n.1 + gate, gait going, walk: cf. sheep-walk. It was originally a syntactic combination, with ky-gates, kine-gates = cows' gates in pl.]
A pasture over which a cow may range; pasture for a cow, e.g. in a common field.
1597Wills & Inv. N.C. II. 277 To Thomas Hall..the howse that William Walton dwelt in, and vj kye-gaytes, in Wingait grainge. 1607–8N. Riding Records IV. 136 Conveyance of one messuage in Ebberston with fower kyne⁓gaites. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. (1796) I. 41 Not to let..a cow-gait to a cottager. 1802Hull Advertiser 17 Apr. 1/2 Some good Cow Gates at Maiden Hills to be let. 1806A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) I. 50 On the enclosure of Great and Little Chesterford, the cottagers that had cow-gates on the commons, had allotments of land, which they now cultivate in wheat, potatoes, etc. 1884Cheshire Gloss. (E.D.S.), Cow-gate, the right to pasture a cow on common land. Many of the farms at Frodsham have so many cow-gates on Frodsham marsh according to the size of the farm. |