α. see through- prefix and gate n.2; also Scottish (Lanarkshire) 1900s– throughtgate.
β. see thorough- prefix and gate n.2
The β. forms are now obsolete.throughgaten.
/ˈθruːɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈθruˌɡeɪt/, Scottish English /ˈθruɡet/ Originally and chiefly Scottish.
A passage through; a thoroughfare, a passageway. Also figurative. Cf. thoroughfare n. 2, 4a.In quot. 1718: an aisle in a church.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, passage, or means of access to a place > [noun] > through
throughwayOE
throughgangc1400
thoroughfarec1405
throughgate1457
through-passage1575
1457 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 117 The throgat sal serf tham bath vp throu and don throu.
1530–1 in R. Renwick Abstr. Protocols Town Clerks Glasgow (1897) IV. 30 Jhon Wan balyae gaif staet to Jhon Allason..of ane bak place with the twa part of ane yard and fre entre at the for yet and throwgaet lyand in our Ladye gaet betuix [etc.].
1598 R. Bernard tr. Terence Adelphi iv. ii, in Terence in Eng. 304 That corner is no thorow gate [L. angiportum non pervium].
1610 W. Cowper Defiance to Death 39 The third roome hee hath..set in the thorough gate of the house.
1639 tr. J. A. Comenius Porta Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) lviii. §617 Lanes most commonly are unpasseable, and have no thorow-gate.
a1663 D. Dickson Sel. Pract. Writings (1845) I. (modernized text) 75 Death is not to be looked on by itself, but with the seasoning of it, and in Christ the through-get of it.
1718 in J. J. Vernon Parish & Kirk Hawick (1900) 144 Andrew Scott, wright, and Tho. Hardie in the throwgate of the kirk to stand.
1845 G. Webster Disputed Inheritance I. iv. 99 The Thoroughgate of Spittalbrig was a wide steep street.
1883 J. Douglas Bk. Bombay vi. 142 We ultimately attained the object we had in view, which was no less than giving a safe throughgate to the vessels of all nations.
1888 Nat. Hist. Trans. Northumberland, Durham, & Newcastle-on-Tyne 9 142 Yat-moss; the moss over which the Scots constructed a thoroughgate and escaped in 1327.
a1902 J. Heughan in Gallovidian (1913) 59 109 Sae will life's throughgate be less kiachsome track.
1975 J. Y. Mather & H. H. Speitel Ling. Atlas Scotl. I. 202 Passage between houses, [Lanarkshire] through gate, throught gate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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