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▪ I. ˈsea-gate1
[gate n.2]
†1. Distance or journey by sea. Obs. rare—1.
1576in Oppress. Orkney & Zetld. (1859) 59 Fra the Yle of Brassay to Swounburgh, quhilk is twentie myles of seagait.
2. A long rolling swell; also, the condition in which two vessels are when thrown aboard one another by such a swell.
1583Fenton's Voy. (MS. Cott. Otho E viii. 185), With the force of the winde and the Seagate our cable br[oke]. 1628World Encompassed by Drake 50 The sea-gate being at that present very great. c1635N. Boteler Dial. Sea Services (1685) 142 Two Ships by lying aboard one another in a Sea-Gate (that is a Billow, or wave). 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Sea-Gate, when two Ships are aboard one another by means of a Wave or Billow: The Sea-men say, They lie aboard one another in a Sea-Gate. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Sea-gate or gait.
†3. ? An inlet of the sea. Obs.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 134 But, since his sin, the wofull wretch findes none..Beast, mountain, valley, sea-gate shore or haven, But bears his Death's doom openly ingraven.
▪ II. ˈsea-gate2
[gate n.1]
1. A gate towards, or giving access to, the sea; or a convenient approach to the sea.
1861J. M. Neale Notes Dalmatia 115 The sea-gate..is Roman. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 238 Over the sea⁓gate of the city stands the Lion of St. Mark.
2. A place of access to the sea.
1883F. G. Heath in Century Mag. Dec. 165/1 Plymouth, the great sea-gate of sunny Devon. 1896Daily News 30 Dec. 6/2 Delagoa Bay, the seagate of Secheleland.
3. One of a pair of supplementary or outer gates opening outwards, placed sometimes at the entrance of an exposed dock or tidal basin, as a safeguard against a heavy sea.
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