† land-gaten.
Obsolete.
1. Scottish. Way or passage over land; also used adverbially = by land.
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c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. iv. xii. f. 47/2 He began to..come land gait ouir the riueir of Leuyn.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 456 If ye..wd have only summer weather and a land-gate not a sea-way, to heaven.
2. (See quot. 1726.)
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1726 Kersey's Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Landgate, a long and narrow Piece of Land.
Derivatives
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 88 An' to the hills land-gates his course did steer.
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