ingate

English

Etymology

in +‎ gate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.ɡeɪt/

Noun

ingate (plural ingates)

1. (obsolete) entrance; ingress
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 12:

     […] which hath in charge the ingate of the yeare.

2. (obsolete) The aperture in a mould for pouring in the metal; the gate.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ingate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• eating, giante, tagine, tangie, teaing