out-gaten.2
/ˈaʊtɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈaʊtˌɡeɪt/ Now rare.
An outer gate.
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hatchOE
leap-gate980
clicket gate?1499
court-gate1540
bar-gate1600
out-gate1648
hatch door1689
six-bar1711
heave-gate1736
farm gate1785
barrier-gate1834
Taranaki gate1937
1648 Depos. Castle of York (1861) 12 Robert Kay, together with 16 or 18 men..with musketts and swords drawne,..broke open the outgate and fower other doores within the said house.
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 98 The Anditus had both an Out-Gate, and an Inner Gate.
1692 J. Gibson in Archaeologia (1796) 12 186 Before his outgate, which is above twelve score distance from his house, are two large fish-ponds.
a1731 P. Aubin Madam de Beaumont (1739) 280 We dispatched him, took the Keys, and rushed by the Centries who kept the Out-Gate.
1822 W. Tennant Thane of Fife 257 The fires of watch that at the out-gates shone, The armed guards patrolling on the green, Unnotic'd and unquestion'd did they pass.
1953 R. Lattimore tr. Aeschylus I. 128 Presently time shall cross the outgates of the house.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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