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† land-gate Obs. [See gate n.1] 1. Sc. Way or passage over land; also used advb. = by land. Also † landgates adv., ? landward, away from the sea.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 143 He began to..come landgait ouir the riveir of Levin. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 456 If ye..wd have only summer weather and a land-gate not a sea-way, to heaven. 1765Ross Helenore (1789) 95 Land-gates unto the hills she took the gate. 2. (See quot.)
1726Kersey, Landgate, a long and narrow Piece of Land. |