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 Gate n.
 1. 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.
 2. 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.
 Knowest thou the way to Dover?
 Both stile and gate, horse way and footpath.   --Shak.
    Opening a gate for a long war.   --Knolles.
 3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
 4. Script. The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
    The gates of hell shall not prevail against it.   --Matt. xvi. 18.
 5. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
 6. 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.]
 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.