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   Gate , n. [OE. ȝet, ȝeat, giat, gate, door, AS. geat, gat, gate, door; akin to OS., D., & Icel. gat opening, hole, and perh. to E. gate a way, gait, and get, v. Cf. Gate a way, 3d Get.]
   A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
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   An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
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   Knowest thou the way to Dover?
   Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.
   Shak.
   
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   Opening a gate for a long war.
   Knolles.
   
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   A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
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   (Script.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
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   The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
   Matt. xvi. 18.
   
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   In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
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   (Founding) (a) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. (b) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. [Written also geat and git.]
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   Gate chamber, a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate. -- Gate channel. See Gate, 5. -- Gate hook, the hook-formed piece of a gate hinge. -- Gate money, entrance money for admission to an inclosure. -- Gate tender, one in charge of a gate, as at a railroad crossing. -- Gate valva, a stop valve for a pipe, having a sliding gate which affords a straight passageway when open. -- Gate vein (Anat.), the portal vein. -- To break gates (Eng. Univ.), to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted. -- To stand in the gate or To stand in the gates, to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.
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   Gate, v. t.
   To supply with a gate.
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   (Eng. Univ.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
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   Gate, n. [Icel. gata; akin to SW. gata street, lane, Dan. gade, Goth. gatwö, G. gasse. Cf. Gate a door, Gait.]
   A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.]
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   I was going to be an honest man; but the devil has this very day flung first a lawyer, and then a woman, in my gate.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]
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   Geat , n. [See Gate a door.] (Founding) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]
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   Sash, n. [F. châssis a frame, sash, fr. châsse a shrine, reliquary, frame, L. capsa. See Case a box.]
   The framing in which the panes of glass are set in a glazed window or door, including the narrow bars between the panes.
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   In a sawmill, the rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; -- also called gate.
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   French sash, a casement swinging on hinges; -- in distinction from a vertical sash sliding up and down.
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   Swing, v. t.
   To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other.
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   He swings his tail, and swiftly turns his round.
   Dryden.
   
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   They get on ropes, as you must have seen the children, and are swung by their men visitants.
   Spectator.
   
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   To give a circular movement to; to whirl; to brandish; as, to swing a sword; to swing a club; hence, colloquially, to manage; as, to swing a business.
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   (Mach.) To admit or turn (anything) for the purpose of shaping it; -- said of a lathe; as, the lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.
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   To swing a door, gate, etc. (Carp.), to put it on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
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