Taranaki gate

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noun

NZ a rough-and-ready gate in a fence made from wire and battens

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Word Origin for Taranaki gate

first used on dairy farms in Taranaki, province of NZ

Words nearby Taranaki gate

taraire, tarakihi, taramasalata, taramea, Taranaki, Taranaki gate, Taranaki wind, tar and feather, tarantass, tarantella, Tarantino

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How to use Taranaki gate in a sentence

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 shoot at Sunset Gower Studios, and you can see the street through the gate,” he says.
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In earlier centuries academies existed to decide what was art, while today we have gallerists and critics at the gate.
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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.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
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.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy