water gaten.²

Brit.

/ˈwɔːtə ɡeɪt/, U.S.

/ˈwɔdər ˌɡeɪt/,

/ˈwɑdər ˌɡeɪt/

Forms: see water n. and gate n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., gate n.¹

Etymology: < water n. + gate n.¹Earlier currency may be implied by place names; compare Watergate , Isle of Wight (1248, now lost), Watergate Ho. , East Marden, Sussex (1279), although in both cases the feature named is unclear. Compare also la Watergate , Southwark, London (1324; recorded 1344 as porta vocatur le Watergate and Estwatergate , and perhaps earlier as le Watergate (1274), although the identification of this name is uncertain), apparently a landing place on the Thames beside the Tower of London. Earlier surnames, as e.g. Alanus de Watergate (Sussex, 1296), may immediately reflect place names rather than the common noun. In sense 1b after Hebrew šaʿar hammayīm (Nehemiah 8:3), lit. ‘water gate’; the semantic motivation of the name of the gate is unclear.

a. A gate in the wall of a town, castle, etc., which opens onto a river or other body of water. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > giving access to water-side

water gatec1380

water port1535

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4651 Þan was þar a geant ful of pryde, And openede þe water-gate wyde, Ys name was enfachoun.

a1500 Sir Degrevant (Cambr.) (1949) l. 934 In at a watur-ȝate, þer men vytayled by bate Þat castel with cornes.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1770/2 The curtayne betwixt the water gate, & the souldiers prison on the wal.

1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. i. 50 Pack up my plate and goods, and steal away By night at water-gate.

1679 M. Prance True Narr. Popish Plot 9 The Watergate (as they call it, that is the furthermost Gate or Passage going down out of the Strand to the Waterside) of Sommerset-House.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 266 Two..Regiments..kept Possession of the Water-Gate..of the Town.

1799 G. Lipscomb Journey into Cornwall iii. 18 The Water-Gate near the Quay is embattled, and has a beautiful machicolation remaining entire.

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason vii. 124 She came down to a gilded watergate, Which with a golden key she opened straight.

1872 Archæol. Jrnl. 29 376 Besides these two gates, the castle had a small water-gate in the wall towards the shore.

1911 G. M. Trevelyan Garibaldi & Making of Italy vii. 165 On the same evening the last of the Bourbons and his queen were leaving the Palace of Naples by the water-gate and taking ship for Gaeta.

2009 C. Gravett Eng. Castles 1200–1300 34 The new outer wall had meant reclaiming the area from the river, which effectively ended the Wakefield Tower's role as a water gate.

†b. Perhaps: a city gate giving access to a source of water, or one through which water is conveyed. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > through which supplies of water are brought

water gate1535

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. viii. 3 In the strete that is before the Watergate.

a. A sluice gate or floodgate on a canal, river, or irrigation system.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice

hatchOE

clowa1250

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shuttlec1440

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gote1531

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flood-hatch1587

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hatchway1705

flash1768

turnpike-lock1771

sluice-gate1781

pound-lock1783

stop-gate1790

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aboiteau1802

koker1814

guard-lock1815

falling sluice1819

lasher1840

fender1847

tailgate1875

weir-hatch1875

wicket1875

1390 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 100 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 (MED) Et quod idem Johannes et heredes sui allocabunt predictis Roberto, Willelmo et Nicholao heredibus et assignatis suis, wateregates et heddryftes durante termino predicto.

1408 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1899) 14 517 (MED) Les spowtes lignea ducentia aquam a dicto Watergate usque dictam rotam.

1458–9 in J. T. Fowler Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1918) III. 84 Pro factura le Wateryattes per Th. bute in fontans fell, ijs.

1577 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 748/2 The syd of the puill foranent the watter yet of the Hauch of Dalkeith.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 391/1 Emissarium,..a floud gate: a watergate: a sluce: a waire.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escluse, a Sluice, Floud-gate, or Water-gate.

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved ix. 54 Then must not of necessity all the Out-lets or Mouths of all the Master-work, and Sluces, and Water-gates be widened?

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Sluice A watergate; a floodgate.

1828 G. F. Lyon Jrnl. Resid. & Tour Mexico II. xii. 253 Canals run from the Presa; and the supply passes through water-gates, which are constructed with considerable ingenuity.

1891 Folk-lore 2 146 A horse must be blindfolded before it will cross the frail wooden bridges over the noisy water gates at the joining of the dykes with the main Canal.

1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 198 Tidal basin, dock or basin, without water gates, in which the water level changes.

2009 F. Taha in T. Tvedt River Nile in post-colonial Age (2010) ix. 210 The water..flow is controllable after it has left the dam by means of a system of locks, water gates and overflow channels.

b. figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit

outgangOE

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water gatea1393

ish14..

issuec1400

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ushing1489

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egress1660

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outcome1885

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 689 After that withinne a throwe He reyneth and the watergates Undoth.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 217 Þe v. watyr-gatys of ȝoure pytt arn ȝoure v. bodyly wyttes, as crisostom seyth... Þise ben þe v. watyr-gatys, þe fyve entrees wherby watyr of curse & wose of synne entryn aȝen in-to þi pytt of lustys, but þei be stoppyd.

1571 J. Bridges Serm. Paules Crosse ii. 137 Reioyce our mother Rome, for the water gates of the tresures in the earth are opened.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 75 If, with ten-fold chain, Thy hand hath lockt thy Water-gates of Rain.

1755 H. Walpole Let. 11 June in Corr. (1973) XXXV. 228 A flood..passed through ceilings and floors into the little parlour, terrified Harry, and opened all Catherine's water-gates and speech-gates.

1895 Badminton Mag. Oct. 294 The rains descend, the river swells in a turbid flood, raging from bank to brae; when the watergates of heaven are closed, it subsides with equal celerity.

1978 E. Chargaff Heraclitean Fire ii. 72 When the water gates of what goes by the name of ‘biomedical research’..are opened, there will be quite a flood.

†3. slang. The female genitals; the vulva or vagina. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun]

cuntc1230

quivera1382

chosec1386

privy chosea1387

quoniamc1405

naturec1470

shell1497

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cunnya1593

medlar1597

mark1598

buggle-boo1600

malkin1602

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skin coat1611

quim1613

nest1614

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bum1655

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crinkum-crankum1670

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honour1688

muff1699

pussy1699

puss1707

fud1771

jock1790

cock?1833

fanny?1835

vaginac1890

rug1893

money-maker1896

Berkeley1899

Berkeley Hunt1899

twitchet1899

mingea1903

snatch1904

beaver1927

coozie1934

Sir Berkeley1937

pocketbook1942

pranny1949

zatch1950

cooch1955

bearded clam1962

noonie1966

chuff1967

coozea1968

carpet1981

pum-pum1983

front bum1985

coochie1986

punani1987

front bottom1991

va-jay-jay2000

1541 Schole House of Women sig. D.iii Salamon sayeth, thre thynges there be Seldome, or neuer saturate Hell the fyrst, is of the thre The seconde, a womans water gate The grounde of water, insacyate Of euery lewde fassyon, recken who can And euer I warrant, the woman is one.

1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss ii. sig. E She and I haue clap a barging vp, Let in at water-gate.

1657 Physical Dict. sig. O1/1, in R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Dispensatory Watergate, a Womans privie member.

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 25 She knew him for a Workman that had the ready skill, To open well her Water-gate, and best supply her Mill.

4. An entrance or passage to a city, region, etc., by water; a sea or river thoroughfare; a port.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc.

channel1536

thoroughfare1598

swatch1626

traversea1645

pilot water1653

swash1694

pass1698

waterway1759

water lane1779

swatchway1798

fairwater1802

swash-way1839

water gate1850

stoach-way1853

seaway1866

swash channel1885

1850 Richmond & Hampton-Court Guide LSE Sel. Pamphlets 3/2 At Dowgate Hill was the ancient port, or water-gate, of the city.

1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 90 A short passage up a series of rapids has brought you..among a people almost as different from the people..of Egypt... This water-gate is an absolute division, ethnologically as well as geologically.

1907 A. J. Phillips (title) Gravesend: the Water-gate of London.

1953 Foreign Affairs 31 630 The Turkish Straits, one of the water gates to the Soviet Union, lead not only to its industrialized south, but also to the Caucasus regions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	water gate
释义	water gaten.² Brit. /ˈwɔːtə ɡeɪt/, U.S. /ˈwɔdər ˌɡeɪt/, /ˈwɑdər ˌɡeɪt/ Forms: see water n. and gate n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., gate n.¹ Etymology: < water n. + gate n.¹Earlier currency may be implied by place names; compare Watergate , Isle of Wight (1248, now lost), Watergate Ho. , East Marden, Sussex (1279), although in both cases the feature named is unclear. Compare also la Watergate , Southwark, London (1324; recorded 1344 as porta vocatur le Watergate and Estwatergate , and perhaps earlier as le Watergate (1274), although the identification of this name is uncertain), apparently a landing place on the Thames beside the Tower of London. Earlier surnames, as e.g. Alanus de Watergate (Sussex, 1296), may immediately reflect place names rather than the common noun. In sense 1b after Hebrew šaʿar hammayīm (Nehemiah 8:3), lit. ‘water gate’; the semantic motivation of the name of the gate is unclear. 1. a. A gate in the wall of a town, castle, etc., which opens onto a river or other body of water. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > giving access to water-side water gatec1380 water port1535 c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4651 Þan was þar a geant ful of pryde, And openede þe water-gate wyde, Ys name was enfachoun. a1500 Sir Degrevant (Cambr.) (1949) l. 934 In at a watur-ȝate, þer men vytayled by bate Þat castel with cornes. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1770/2 The curtayne betwixt the water gate, & the souldiers prison on the wal. 1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. i. 50 Pack up my plate and goods, and steal away By night at water-gate. 1679 M. Prance True Narr. Popish Plot 9 The Watergate (as they call it, that is the furthermost Gate or Passage going down out of the Strand to the Waterside) of Sommerset-House. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 266 Two..Regiments..kept Possession of the Water-Gate..of the Town. 1799 G. Lipscomb Journey into Cornwall iii. 18 The Water-Gate near the Quay is embattled, and has a beautiful machicolation remaining entire. 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason vii. 124 She came down to a gilded watergate, Which with a golden key she opened straight. 1872 Archæol. Jrnl. 29 376 Besides these two gates, the castle had a small water-gate in the wall towards the shore. 1911 G. M. Trevelyan Garibaldi & Making of Italy vii. 165 On the same evening the last of the Bourbons and his queen were leaving the Palace of Naples by the water-gate and taking ship for Gaeta. 2009 C. Gravett Eng. Castles 1200–1300 34 The new outer wall had meant reclaiming the area from the river, which effectively ended the Wakefield Tower's role as a water gate. †b. Perhaps: a city gate giving access to a source of water, or one through which water is conveyed. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > opening which may be passed through > gate or gateway > through which supplies of water are brought water gate1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Neh. viii. 3 In the strete that is before the Watergate. 2. a. A sluice gate or floodgate on a canal, river, or irrigation system. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice hatchOE clowa1250 lock1261 water lock1261 sluice1340 water gate1390 sewer-gate1402 spay1415 floodgatec1440 shuttlec1440 spayer1450 gate1496 falling gate1524 spoye1528 gote1531 penstock1542 ventil1570 drawgate1587 flood-hatch1587 turnpike1623 slaker1664 lock gate1677 hatchway1705 flash1768 turnpike-lock1771 sluice-gate1781 pound-lock1783 stop-gate1790 buck gate1791 slacker1797 aboiteau1802 koker1814 guard-lock1815 falling sluice1819 lasher1840 fender1847 tailgate1875 weir-hatch1875 wicket1875 1390 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 100 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 (MED) Et quod idem Johannes et heredes sui allocabunt predictis Roberto, Willelmo et Nicholao heredibus et assignatis suis, wateregates et heddryftes durante termino predicto. 1408 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1899) 14 517 (MED) Les spowtes lignea ducentia aquam a dicto Watergate usque dictam rotam. 1458–9 in J. T. Fowler Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1918) III. 84 Pro factura le Wateryattes per Th. bute in fontans fell, ijs. 1577 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 748/2 The syd of the puill foranent the watter yet of the Hauch of Dalkeith. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 391/1 Emissarium,..a floud gate: a watergate: a sluce: a waire. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escluse, a Sluice, Floud-gate, or Water-gate. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved ix. 54 Then must not of necessity all the Out-lets or Mouths of all the Master-work, and Sluces, and Water-gates be widened? 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Sluice A watergate; a floodgate. 1828 G. F. Lyon Jrnl. Resid. & Tour Mexico II. xii. 253 Canals run from the Presa; and the supply passes through water-gates, which are constructed with considerable ingenuity. 1891 Folk-lore 2 146 A horse must be blindfolded before it will cross the frail wooden bridges over the noisy water gates at the joining of the dykes with the main Canal. 1967 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 5) 198 Tidal basin, dock or basin, without water gates, in which the water level changes. 2009 F. Taha in T. Tvedt River Nile in post-colonial Age (2010) ix. 210 The water..flow is controllable after it has left the dam by means of a system of locks, water gates and overflow channels. b. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit outgangOE gatec1175 outletc1275 outgoinga1387 water gatea1393 ish14.. issuec1400 outgatec1485 ushing1489 outway1571 egress1660 utterance1662 débouché1760 debouch1813 gateway1842 outgo1869 outfall1883 outcome1885 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iii. l. 689 After that withinne a throwe He reyneth and the watergates Undoth. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 217 Þe v. watyr-gatys of ȝoure pytt arn ȝoure v. bodyly wyttes, as crisostom seyth... Þise ben þe v. watyr-gatys, þe fyve entrees wherby watyr of curse & wose of synne entryn aȝen in-to þi pytt of lustys, but þei be stoppyd. 1571 J. Bridges Serm. Paules Crosse ii. 137 Reioyce our mother Rome, for the water gates of the tresures in the earth are opened. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 75 If, with ten-fold chain, Thy hand hath lockt thy Water-gates of Rain. 1755 H. Walpole Let. 11 June in Corr. (1973) XXXV. 228 A flood..passed through ceilings and floors into the little parlour, terrified Harry, and opened all Catherine's water-gates and speech-gates. 1895 Badminton Mag. Oct. 294 The rains descend, the river swells in a turbid flood, raging from bank to brae; when the watergates of heaven are closed, it subsides with equal celerity. 1978 E. Chargaff Heraclitean Fire ii. 72 When the water gates of what goes by the name of ‘biomedical research’..are opened, there will be quite a flood. †3. slang. The female genitals; the vulva or vagina. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > female sex organs > [noun] cuntc1230 quivera1382 chosec1386 privy chosea1387 quoniamc1405 naturec1470 shell1497 box1541 water gate1541 mouth1568 quiver case1568 water gap1586 cunnya1593 medlar1597 mark1598 buggle-boo1600 malkin1602 lap1607 skin coat1611 quim1613 nest1614 watermilla1626 bum1655 merkin1656 twat1656 notch1659 commodity1660 modicum1660 crinkum-crankum1670 honeypot1673 honour1688 muff1699 pussy1699 puss1707 fud1771 jock1790 cock?1833 fanny?1835 vaginac1890 rug1893 money-maker1896 Berkeley1899 Berkeley Hunt1899 twitchet1899 mingea1903 snatch1904 beaver1927 coozie1934 Sir Berkeley1937 pocketbook1942 pranny1949 zatch1950 cooch1955 bearded clam1962 noonie1966 chuff1967 coozea1968 carpet1981 pum-pum1983 front bum1985 coochie1986 punani1987 front bottom1991 va-jay-jay2000 1541 Schole House of Women sig. D.iii Salamon sayeth, thre thynges there be Seldome, or neuer saturate Hell the fyrst, is of the thre The seconde, a womans water gate The grounde of water, insacyate Of euery lewde fassyon, recken who can And euer I warrant, the woman is one. 1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss ii. sig. E She and I haue clap a barging vp, Let in at water-gate. 1657 Physical Dict. sig. O1/1, in R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Dispensatory Watergate, a Womans privie member. 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth II. 25 She knew him for a Workman that had the ready skill, To open well her Water-gate, and best supply her Mill. 4. An entrance or passage to a city, region, etc., by water; a sea or river thoroughfare; a port. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc. channel1536 thoroughfare1598 swatch1626 traversea1645 pilot water1653 swash1694 pass1698 waterway1759 water lane1779 swatchway1798 fairwater1802 swash-way1839 water gate1850 stoach-way1853 seaway1866 swash channel1885 1850 Richmond & Hampton-Court Guide LSE Sel. Pamphlets 3/2 At Dowgate Hill was the ancient port, or water-gate, of the city. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 90 A short passage up a series of rapids has brought you..among a people almost as different from the people..of Egypt... This water-gate is an absolute division, ethnologically as well as geologically. 1907 A. J. Phillips (title) Gravesend: the Water-gate of London. 1953 Foreign Affairs 31 630 The Turkish Straits, one of the water gates to the Soviet Union, lead not only to its industrialized south, but also to the Caucasus regions. 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