back gate

See also: backgate

English

Noun

back gate (plural back gates)

  1. The gate at the back of a property, especially a residential property, often leading onto a lane.
    • 1869, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 13, in Little Women‎:
      All walked quietly through the garden, out at the little back gate, and began to climb the hill that lay between the house and river.
    • 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Book 2, Chapter III,
      On Saturday Ambrosch drove up to the back gate, and Antonia jumped down from the wagon and ran into our kitchen just as she used to do.
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