Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Entrance; passage inward.
- noun In founding, the aperture in a mold through which fused metal is poured: also called
inset and tedge. - noun In coal-mining, an entrance to a mine from the shaft.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Entrance; ingress.
- noun (Founding) The aperture in a mold for pouring in the metal; the gate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
entrance ;ingress - noun obsolete The
aperture in amould for pouring in themetal ; thegate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then we went all about the cage and the pavilion to find ingate, and found it not; and then the three of us together strove with the bars of the herse, and shook and swayed them, but it was all to no purpose.
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And be that semeliminal salmon solemonly angled, ingate and outgate.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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J [ohn] W [ingate] T [hornton], in the Historical Magazine, February, 1858.
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Then we went all about the cage and the pavilion to find ingate, and found it not; and then the three of us together strove with the bars of the herse, and shook and swayed them, but it was all to no purpose.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles William Morris 1865
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At the ingate to the Dale he found watches set, the men whereof told him that the tidings were not right great.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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Thus then they entered into the narrow pass aforesaid, which was the ingate to the Vale from the Waste, and little by little its dimness swallowed up their long line.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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But when they came back into the Vale the Sun-beam duly ordered that watch and ward to keep the ingate thereto, and note all that should befall till Folk-might came home.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale William Morris 1865
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Our Mai is planted; if not in the Feuillants Terrace, whither is no ingate, then in the Garden of the Capuchins, as near as we could get.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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National Assembly has adjourned till the Evening Session: perhaps this shut lake, finding no ingate, will retire to its sources again; and disappear in peace?
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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