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单词 falgate
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falgaten.

Brit. /ˈfɔːlɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈfɔlˌɡeɪt/, /ˈfɑlˌɡeɪt/
Forms:

α. Middle English falȝate, Middle English falyate, Middle English 1800s– falgate, 1500s fallgat, 1500s– fallgate; English regional 1600s folgate (East Anglian), 1800s faulyeat (Cumberland).

β. 1500s faldegate (East Anglian); English regional 1700s faldyeat (Westmorland), 1800s fauldyett (Cumberland), 1800s foudyate (Derbyshire), 1800s fowtyate (Lancashire), 1900s fauldgate (Westmorland).

Origin: Probably formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fold n.2, gate n.1
Etymology: Probably < fold n.2 + gate n.1In α. forms showing simplification of the consonant cluster. In later use sometimes reinterpreted as < fall v.; compare fallgate at α. forms and also an early instance of fallyngegate < falling adj.: see quot. 1524 for falling gate n. at falling adj. Compounds 2. Attested earlier as a surname, e.g. Peter de le Falgate, Richard de Faldgate (both 1275; Norfolk).
English regional (chiefly East Anglian). Now historical.
A gate at the entrance to an enclosure for livestock, an enclosed field, etc. Also: a gate placed across a public road.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > gate across road
fall gate1585
falgate1808
1327 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 76 [Digging 73 perches of ditch from] falgate [towards the land of the parson of Thornage].
c1475 in L. T. Smith Common-place Bk. 15th Cent. (1886) 165 Ony mane yat hath noȝte hangyd his fal-ȝates at resonable tymes.
1544 Churchwardens' Accts. N. Elmham in G. A. Carthew Hundred of Launditch (1877) ii. 598 For a falde gate to henge at ye hethe and for holes hengells wt other gears for ye seyd gate..xxjd.
1549 in A. G. Legge Churchwardens' Accts. N. Elmham (1891) 49 To John Wryght for a hengell for A fallgate..jd.
1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1967) IV. 13 They somtyms use ye crabb harrows (becaus drawn cornerwise they ar as bigg as a fallgate).
1783 J. Woodforde Diary 4 July (1926) II. 82 To some poor ragged Children at the fall gate at Lyng 0. 0. 6.
1808 Ipswich Jrnl. 9 Jan. (advt.) One road..proceeding in a South West direction along the present tract over Westerfield Green, to a fallgate, near a cottage belonging to the Rev. William Fonnereau.
1842 T. Quarles Hist. & Antiq. Foulsham 136 A portion of the marsh was named Holl's Mouth, and a drift-way with a falgate led to it from the lands on its eastern side.
1913 J. M. Durham & R. J. Richardson Melton & Homespun 248 An yow care to come a-flightin' wi' I Noel-eve marnin', do yow be at the fall-gate, over the great dick, at half arter six.
1918 Essex Rev. 27 12 The second [road] led eastwards from the old falgate to a point in the first road a little south of Gatehouse.
1995 S. W. Martins & T. Williamson in R. Burroughes Farming Jrnl. 73 (note) A falgate was a gate erected at the point where a public road entered a common.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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