gatepost
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Proto-Indo-European *gʰed-eti
Proto-Germanic *getaną
Proto-Germanic *gatą
Proto-West Germanic *gat
Old English ġeat
Middle English gate
English gate
English gatepost
Noun
gatepost (plural gateposts)
- a vertical post from which a gate is hung/attached.
- 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill, London: Penguin Books, published 1994, page 9:
- A cuckoo sat on a gate-post singing his broken June tune[.]
Translations
vertical post from which a gate is hung
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