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单词 taranaki
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Taranakin.

/tarəˈnaki/
Etymology: < the name of Taranaki, a province in New Zealand.
Taranaki gate n. a gate made of wire strands attached to upright battens (see quot. 1966).
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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 > other types of gate
hatchOE
leap-gate980
clicket gate?1499
court-gate1540
bar-gate1600
out-gate1648
hatch door1689
six-bar1711
heave-gate1736
farm gate1785
barrier-gate1834
Taranaki gate1937
1937 M. E. C. Scott Barbara Prospers 27 She..had the ‘Taranaki’ gate open in a twinkling.
1948 R. Finlayson Tidal Creek 205 Mind you get the taranaki gate properly up.
1953 J. W. Brimblecombe Shear Nonsense 110 He can now open a Taranaki gate without rolling himself up in it.
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. ii. 31 The province gives its name to the Taranaki gate, a moveable piece of a wire fence held by a loop of wire at one end to form a makeshift gate.
1968 Landfall 22 390 Sure enough, we found someone had taken down the Taranaki gate on the side that led to the Oteranika Road.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online January 2018).
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