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Definition of mallee gate in English: mallee gatenoun Australian A makeshift gate, especially one set into a fence in a rural area. the west boundary was crossed through a mallee gate consisting of five plain wires Example sentencesExamples - Some mud walls remain inside, and neatly framed and jointed mallee gates subdivide the compartments.
- When a visitor opens the Mallee gate, the housewife sends the half-naked children away out of sight.
- There was a very wide mallee gate which separated the two paddocks.
- He sent me up to the mallee gate which led into the northern laneway.
- You never had to open a gate, they were low mallee gates up mid-north, and over your horse would go.
- I've seen more stock crippled through getting tangled in a Mallee gate left lying on the ground.
- Protection from stock was provided by a fence with four barbed and a middle plain wire, the entrance being a mallee gate.
- Barbwired and Mallee gates figure largely on all properties.
- On some farms the Mallee gates are in use.
- "D'you know what a Mallee gate is, Bob?"
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