| 单词 | hatch gate |
| 释义 | > as lemmashatch gate hatch gate n. (a) a wicket gate; (b) a floodgate (cf. sense 3). [Also attested early as a place name: Hachgate, Buckinghamshire (c1240; now lost).] ΚΠ lOE Bounds (Sawyer 960) in J. M. Kemble Codex Diplomaticus (1846) IV. 27 Of ðære riscean on sagelmære on ðæt hæccgeat; of ðam hæccgetæ to twybyce. a1170 ( Bounds (Sawyer 591) in M. Gelling Place-names Berks. (1976) III. 668 Of þam gete on holan broces heafod, þonne on þæt hæcget. 1791 Rep. Commrs. Thames-Isis Navigation 26 A Hatch Gate..is drawn much in Short-water Time; to water the Meadows. 1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 100 We reached the hatch gate, with the white cottage beside it. 1905 Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 10 23 It [sc. a place] is probably the way across which there was a hatch gate, in this case at the parish boundary. 2005 This is Wilts. (Nexis) 3 Nov. Without an Environment Agency contingency plan which included opening hatch gates that restrict river flow the river would have risen even more. < as lemmas |
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