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noun

a sluice gate that opens by lifting upward.

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The Florida GOP senator stormed out of the gate Wednesday in the highest of dudgeons.
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Said it was like speed dating because he was late after hitting every wrong gate on the lot.
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They dumped his body at the gate of a black cemetery—his head and right arm were gone.
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We made it practical to give Dunham a $3.7 million book advance for penning her memoir—at 28.
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Yet he feared to meet her eyes, and was glad of a saluting sepoy who swaggered jauntily past the open gate.
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At once the sepoys at the Kashmir Gate fired a volley at the nearest officers, of whom three fell dead.
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First through the gate came a company of Korean foot-soldiers, in blue uniforms.
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Bride and bridegroom, accompanied by the weeping crowd, proceeded to the castle gate.
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A rough track led to the gate, and Frank knocked loudly on an iron-studded door.
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