n. A passage or opening closed by a movable barrier (a door or gate in sense 3); a gateway: commonly used with reference to such barrier, and specifically for the entrance to a large inclosure or building, as a walled city, a fortification, a great church or palace, or other public monument.n. Hence, any somewhat contracted or difficult means or avenue of approach or passage; a narrow opening or defile: as, the Iron Gates of the Danube.n. A movable barrier consisting of a frame or solid structure of wood, iron, or other material, set on hinges or pivots in or at the end of a passage in order to close it.n. The movable framework which shuts or opens a passage for water, as at the entrance to a dock or in a canal-lock.n. In coal-mining, an underground road connecting a stall with a main road or inclined plane. Also called gate-road, gateway.n. In founding:n. One of various forms of channels or openings made in the sand or molds, through which the metal flows (pouring-gate), or by means of which access is had to it, either for skimming its surface (skimming-gate) or for other purposes.n. The waste piece of metal cast in the gate.n. A ridge in a casting which has to be sawn off.n. In locksmithing, one of the apertures in the tumblers for the passage of the stub.n. A sash or frame in which a saw is extended, to prevent buckling or bending.To supply with a gate.In the English universities of Oxford and Cambridge, to punish by a restriction on customary liberty.n. A way; road; path; course.n. Way; manner; mode of doing: used especially with all, this, thus, other, no, etc., in adverbial phrases.n. In particular Way or manner of walking; walk; carriage. [In this use now spelled gait, and usually associated (erroneously) with the verb go. See the etymology, and gait.] Movement on a course or way; progress; procession; journey; expedition.n. Room or opportunity for going forward; space to move in.To go.n. An archaic or dialectal form of goat.To place (a warp) in a loom ready for weaving.To put (a machine, as a loom) in order to do its work properly.