back gate

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back gate (plural back gates)

  1. The gate at the back of a property, especially a residential property, often leading onto a lane.
    • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 13, in Little Women[1]:
      All walked quietly through the garden, out at the little back gate, and began to climb the hill that lay between the house and river.
    • 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia[2], Book 2, Chapter III:
      On Saturday Ambrosch drove up to the back gate, and Antonia jumped down from the wagon and ran into our kitchen just as she used to do.