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
Unless—maybe the shaking his body had received during the past few moments had sharpened his thinking—unless the Foanna had their own means of protection at the sea gate and this was the result.
From Key Out of Time by Norton, Andre
The sea gate is open for another hour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various
From the harbour the nearest way to the House was by the sea gate, but where was the haste -- with the lovely night around them, private as a dream shared only by two?
From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George
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