| 单词 | heave-gate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasheave-gate heave-gate n. local a gate which is opened by being lifted out of the sockets or mortises. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > other types of gate hatchOE leap-gate980 clicket gate?1499 court-gate1540 bar-gate1600 out-gate1648 hatch door1689 six-bar1711 heave-gate1736 farm gate1785 barrier-gate1834 Taranaki gate1937 1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) Heave-gate, when the rails, with the pales nailed to them, may be taken out of their mortises, and then put in again. 1876 in G. L. Gower Surrey Provincialisms. 1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 27 Instead of gates out here, they generally have bars, which you have to let down,..like the ‘heave gates’ in Sussex. 1907 ‘J. Halsham’ Lonewood Corner 149 I perched myself on the heave-gate between the two fields. 1959 F. Donaldson Child of Twenties vii. 107 A very easy hunting country, mainly a question of jumping the local Sussex heave-gates and small fences. < as lemmas |
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