back gate
See also: backgate
English
Noun
back gate (plural back gates)
- 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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