sea gate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sea gate
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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It crashed through what appeared to be a two-story-high sea gate, then careened through the valley, following a two-lane road.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2011
Five hundred miles east of the Strait, between Cuba and Haiti, lies the Caribbean's central and most used sea gate: the deep, so-mile-wide Windward Passage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sea gate is open for another hour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
He did not think of the possibility of lurking sea monsters as he plunged into the water, swam for the canoe edging along the reef, plainly bound for the sea gate to the southwest.
From Storm Over Warlock by Norton, Andre
But dared the three spill out of their boat, trust to their swimming ability and that of the dolphins, and invade the Foanna sea gate so?
From Key Out of Time by Norton, Andre
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