Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A narrow gate, not wide enough for two to pass as strangers.
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Examples
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As we crossed Bishop Trevor's bridge and passed through the squeaky, iron kissing-gate, the long fingers of shadow on the grass were beginning to shorten as the sun rose above the beeches that flank this stretch of the river Gaunless.
Country diary: Bishop Auckland Phil Gates 2010
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Obviously thousands of people in wheelchairs, who would otherwise think nothing of bowling along rutted countryside paths studded with tree roots, rocks and boulders, fallen branches, overhanging brambles, mud swamps and other impedimenta to progress which make them such a challenge for the able-bodied, are being stymied by the kissing-gate.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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Obviously thousands of people in wheelchairs, who would otherwise think nothing of bowling along rutted countryside paths studded with tree roots, rocks and boulders, fallen branches, overhanging brambles, mud swamps and other impedimenta to progress which make them such a challenge for the able-bodied, are being stymied by the kissing-gate.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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Obviously thousands of people in wheelchairs, who would otherwise think nothing of bowling along rutted countryside paths studded with tree roots, rocks and boulders, fallen branches, overhanging brambles, mud swamps and other impedimenta to progress which make them such a challenge for the able-bodied, are being stymied by the kissing-gate.
Rustic disablism 2007
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They reached the point at which Albion Villas had been thwarted by a hedge, rich in unripe sloes and green abortive blackberries, in their attempt to get across a stubble-field to the new town, and passed in instalments through its turnstile, or kissing-gate.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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Make directly for the church in Bampton Grange, and you will go through a small gate and then a kissing-gate to enter the churchyard.
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Go through the kissing-gate and then turn right (signpost reads: "Public Footpath Pasture Beck").
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When you reach the main road (one mile from the start), carefully cross over and go through the kissing-gate diagonally opposite and turn left along the permissive path along the eastern shore of Brothers Water.
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When you reach the main road (one mile from the start), carefully cross over and go through the kissing-gate diagonally opposite and turn left along the permissive path along the eastern shore of Brothers Water.
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When you reach the main road (one mile from the start), carefully cross over and go through the kissing-gate diagonally opposite and turn left along the permissive path along the eastern shore of Brothers Water.
bilby commented on the word kissing-gate
"It was just past the barrier, which they negotiated via a kissing-gate, set in its V-shaped frame, that the two detectives came, on their left, to a large clearing, some 100 yards square, with fir-saplings planted around the fenced perimeter, in which was set a whole complex of sheds and barns, built in horizontally slatted wood, with piles of spruce- and fir-logs stacked nearby, and with several tractors and pieces of tree-felling machinery standing beside or beneath the open-fronted barns."
- Colin Dexter, 'The Way Through The Woods'.
November 1, 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word kissing-gate
"Leave the woods via a wooden kissing-gate, keep close to the fence on your right and then cross the river via the green, metal footbridge."
June 13, 2015
qms commented on the word kissing-gate
Milkmaids betimes their swains arouse
And tempt them away from their plows
To the kissing-gate,
There to osculate
Unhindered by curious cows.
June 13, 2015