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Definition of Gateleg
1. Noun. Used attributively to describe a table having a leg, set into a frame in the form of a gate, that may be swung back to allow a leaf to hang down ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gateleg
1. having a swinging leg [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gateleg
Literary usage of Gateleg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1835)
"So a void bond has been referred to in order to ascertain the terms of hiring
when an action of assumpsit has been brought (a) 4 Bing. 309 ; see per gateleg ..."
2. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"... except the gateleg table, a style which continued half way through the eighteenth
century; and pine cupboards, which for the sake of completeness, ..."
3. Readings in Industrial Society: A Study in the Structure and Functioning of by Leon Carroll Marshall (1918)
"They must have been something like the adjustable flaps we have on gateleg tables.
Sometimes a sloping wooden roof protected them, and sometimes the ..."
4. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machyn, John Gough Nichols (1848)
"... with blake and armes, and after to the piase to dener, for ther was myche
a-doo ; and thys was at gateleg my lord('s) place ; and (blank) dyd ..."
5. English Life and Manners in the Later Middle Ages by Annie Abram (1913)
"They must have been something like the adjustable flaps we have on gateleg tables.
Sometimes a sloping wooden roof protected them, and sometimes the ..."
6. Art in England During the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods by Aymer Vallance, Malcolm Charles Salaman (1908)
"OAK TABLE A more familiar variety is the gateleg table, not intended primarily
for use as a dining-table. Though fitted more usually with oval tops, ..."
7. The Lure of the Antique by Walter Alden Dyer (1910)
"... development of, 83 Tea-tables with central post and tripod legs, 72 Thousand-legged
or gateleg table, 68, *7o Tables: (Continued) Tilt-tables, *70, 73, ..."
8. Selections from the Judicial Records of Renfrewshire: Illustrative of the by William Hector (1876)
"Williamson's Gospel Method. A Discourse on Justification. Ditton on the Resurrection.
The Academy of Compliments. 2nd volume of Robb's Sermons." E gateleg ..."
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