gateless
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a word derived from
gate.
gatenouna movable barrier, usually on hinges, closing an opening in a fence, wall, or other enclosure.
Example Sentences
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Federal regulations allow gateless crossings for trains 35 mph or slower.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
In place of a drive a grassy cart-track, scored deep with old ruts, led through a gateless entrance into a courtyard where the slates had dropped from the roof and lay strewn like autumn leaves.
From The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Teresa Maldo's love, the sisterly love of which Agnes had been so little worthy, had broken down the gateless barrier which stretches its dense length between the living and the dead.
From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Never had he appeared smarter than when he went out of the gateless opening in Doc Weaver's fence, and turned his face toward Miss Sally's home.
From Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent by Ellis Parker Butler
Screens of bamboos and woven rushes, with wide gateless openings in their midst, mark the boundaries of the three divisions of the pleasure-grounds.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn