Geat /ˈgit, ˈgeət, ˈjæət/
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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.


 Geat n.  Founding The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]

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