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Taranaki|tærəˈnækɪ|
The name of a province in New Zealand, used attrib. in Taranaki gate, a gate made of wire strands attached to upright battens (see quot. 1966).
1937M. E. C. Scott Barbara Prospers 27 She..had the ‘Taranaki’ gate open in a twinkling. 1948R. Finlayson Tidal Creek 205 Mind you get the taranaki gate properly up. 1953J. W. Brimblecombe Shear Nonsense 110 He can now open a Taranaki gate without rolling himself up in it. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. Austral. & N.Z. ii. 31 The province gives its name to the Taranaki gate, a moveable piece of a wire fence held by a loop of wire at one end to form a makeshift gate. 1968Landfall XXII. 390 Sure enough, we found someone had taken down the Taranaki gate on the side that led to the Oteranika Road. |