Gate /(gāt)/

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.
    Opening a gate for a long war.
  3. A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
  4. The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might. (Script.)
    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. The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate. (Founding)

Phrases & Compounds
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
the portal vein.
To break gates
to enter a college inclosure after the hour to which a student has been restricted.
To stand in the gate
to occupy places or advantage, power, or defense.

Gate

v. t.
  1. To supply with a gate.
  2. To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual. (Eng. Univ.)

Gate

n.
  1. A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate). [O. Eng. & Scot.]
    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.
  2. Manner; gait. [O. Eng. & Scot.]