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Definition of Give the gate

1. Verb. Terminate a relationship abruptly. "Mary gave John the axe after she saw him with another woman"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Give The Gate

Literary usage of Give the gate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Agriculturist (1847)
"... it from settling down ; and the greater length from the shoulder to the eye is to give the gate a tendency, when opened, to close by its o>vn gravity. ..."

2. Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court (1857)
"... from manual resistance, or under such circumstances as would give the gate keeper to understand that force would be required to prevent his passing. ..."

3. The Rural Economy of Yorkshire: Comprizing the Management of Landed Estates by Marshall (William) (1788)
"... to give the gate a fall when open at right angle; and the latter, to throw the point of the pivot without the pin of the hook, to give the gate a fall ..."

4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... and, because neither he nor any one round him could give the gate a name, he called it the "Gate of the Elephants." Here the noise from the Treasury was ..."

5. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1879)
"... defended by him during an eleven months' siege of the city by the Imperial troops. Visitors knock at the gate, and on leaving give the gate-keeper a few ..."

6. The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part by Thomas Bird Mosher, John Keats (1897)
"... and, because neither he nor any one round him could give the gate a name, he called it the "Gate of the Elephants." Here the noise from the Treasury was ..."

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