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alley gate

noun

  1. a metal spiked gate erected behind a terrace of houses to deter burglars


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After we have put on our disguises, we will go down stairs very softly and steal out at the alley gate.

His captors had evidently entered the campus from the alley gate at the back, where no one would be likely to see them.

They hurried to the alley gate, and there they found the letter, as the Black Star had said.

And don't I wish I could hear him giving his call for me out by the alley gate!

He had stepped outside to find one Smooth Crumbaugh leaning upon the alley gate.

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