单词 | race gate |
释义 | > as lemmasrace gate race gate n. †(a) a gate used to control the flow of water through a race (sense 5b) (obsolete); (b) Agriculture (chiefly Australian and New Zealand) a gate through which animals (esp. sheep) enter or leave a race (sense 5d). ΚΠ 1775 L. Carter Diary 23 Sept. (1965) II. 949 I will not lay the fault of setting the race gate behind or rather below the dam so that without a large bridge nothing could be carried over it. 1897 L. Bell Electric Power Transmission ix. 334 One of the main race gates, lifted by the mechanism at G2. 1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. x. 251 He once asked Moore why he didn't put race gates into his yards. 1996 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Aug. 28 Options include a sheep loading facility, three and six feet gate stabilisers and extra race gates. < as lemmas |
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