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gatehouse|ˈgeɪthaʊs|
[f. gate n.1 + house n.]
1. A house (for a servant or gatekeeper) at or over the entrance of a park or other enclosure; a lodge.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 15 Grete cost of kechenes and ȝate housis. 1458Visit. St. Paul's Churches (Camden) 99 Vnum gattehous, et vnum hoghous. c1543in Turner's Dom. Archit. III. 79 The great quadrangle with a gatehous. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iii. xvii. 205 The Gate-house and Hall swarmed with troupes. 1762–71Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 298 The gate-house or tower of Layer-Marney-hall. 1835W. Irving Newstead Abbey Crayon Misc. (1863) 320 An arched way led through the centre of the gate-house. 1876Whitby Gloss., Yat-house, a lodge on an archway through which you drive into a court-yard.
fig.1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 27, I would be loth to build a labyrinth in the gatehouse of my book, for you to lose yourselves in.
2. The apartment over the gate of a city or palace, often strongly built, and hence used as a prison; spec. that over the gate of the palace of Westminster.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 947/2 The kings maiestie..at that time sat in his new gatehouse at his palace of Westminster, where he viewed all the whole companie. 1637Documents agst. Prynne (Camden) 87 As Doctor Bastwicke came from the gatehouse towards the pallace the light common people strowed herbes and flowers before him. 1641in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 275 One Newton a Popish Priest was committed to the Gate-House. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. vii. §139 [The king's] messenger..was..by the Houses committed to the Gate⁓house. 1895Murray's Handbk. Hertfordsh. etc. 81 [St. Alban's], The Abbey Gate House, the only other relic left of the monastery, stands about 50 yards W. of the Cathedral. |