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▪ I. ˈwater-gate1
[gate n.1]
†1. A sluice or floodgate. Obs.
1408in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1899) XIV. 517 Les spowtes lignea ducentia aquam a dicto Watergate usque dictam rotam. 1458–9Memorials of Fountains (Surtees) III. 58 Pro factura le Wateryattes per Th. bute in fontans fell. ij s. 1577Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 748/2 The syd of the puill foranent the watter yet of the Hauch of Dalkeith. 1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 391/1 Emissarium,..a floud gate: a watergate: a sluce: a waire. 1755Johnson, Sluice,..a watergate; a floodgate.
b. transf. and fig.
1390Gower Conf. I. 302 After that withinne a throwe He reyneth and the watergates Undoth. Ibid. I. 312 Fro hevene out of the watergates The reyni Storm fell down algates. c1440Jacob's Well 217 Þe v. watyr-gatys of ȝoure pytt arn ȝoure v. bodyly wyttes, as crisostom seyth... Þise ben þe v. watyr-gatys, þe fyve entrees wherby watyr of curse & wose of synne entryn aȝen in-to þi pytt of lystys, but þei be stoppyd. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnif. 1241 If, with ten-fold chain, Thy hand hath lockt the Water-gates of Rain. 1719D'Urfey Pills II. 25 To open well her Water⁓gate, and best supply her Mill.
2. A gate (of a town, a castle, etc.) giving access to the water-side.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 4651 Þan was þar a geant ful of pryde, And openede þe water-gate wyde, Ys name was enfachoun. a1400Sir Perc. 918 In at a watur-ȝate, Ther men vytayled by bate That castel with cornes. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 1135/2 The curteine betwixt the watergate and the soldiers prison on the wall. 1624Middleton Game at Chess iii. i. 50 Pack up my plate and goods, and steal away By night at water-gate. 1679M. Prance Narr. Popish Plot 9 The Watergate (as they call it, that is the furthermost Gate or Passage going down out of the Strand to the Waterside) of Sommerset-House. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 225 Two..regiments..kept possession of the water-gate..of the town. 1867Morris Jason vii. 123 She came down to a gilded water-gate, Which with a golden key she opened straight. 1911G. M. Trevelyan Garibaldi & Making of Italy vii. 165 On the same evening the last of the Bourbons and his queen were leaving the Palace of Naples by the water-gate and taking ship for Gaeta.
b. A gate through which supplies of water are brought.
1535Coverdale Neh. viii. 3 In the strete that is before the Watergate.
3. A place through which water-traffic passes.
1893F. Adams New Egypt 90 It is strange..to find that a short passage up a series of rapids has brought you..among a people almost as different from the people..of Egypt... This water-gate is an absolute division, ethnologically as well as geologically. 1907A. J. Phillips (title) Gravesend: the Water-gate of London.
▪ II. ˈwater-gate2 north. and Sc.
[gate n.2]
1. A channel for water, a watercourse.
1368–9Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 575 In exp. factis pro uno Watergat pro minera de Raynton, 8li. 17s. 4d. 1408Durham Acc. Roll in Eng. Hist. Rev. XIV. 517 Soluta..laborariis, operantibus et facientibus unum Watergate extendentem de Heribourne usque dictum forgeum. 1417Engl. Misc. (Surtees) 13 And bryng of his coste the water⁓gate overthwarte at the ende of the same newe house. 1447Script. tres (Surtees) App. p. cccxiii, Alsa the said John [etc.] sall..labour and wyn a watergate for wynnyng of cole in the same colepit. 1668Yorks. Deeds (Yorks. Arch. Soc., Rec. Ser.) II. 115 To carry a sufficient sough and water-gate through the demised ground. a1800Jamie Telfer xii. in Child Ballads V. 250/1 Now Jamie is up the water-gate, Een as fast as he can drie.
2. Sc. ‘An act of voiding urine’ (Jam.). Hence in fig. phrase (cf. water n. 18 c).
1721J. Kelly Sc. Prov. 396 I'll watch your Watergate. That is, I'll watch for an Advantage over you. |