▪ I. ingate, n.1 (adv.) north. dial.
(ˈɪngeɪt)
[f. in adv. 11 d + gate n.2]
1. The action or faculty of going in or entering; entrance, ingress.
| 1496 Will of Yeldham (Somerset Ho.), W{supt} free ingate & outegate. 1596 Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 650/1 One noble parson, whoe..stoppeth the Ingate of all that evill. 1598 Stow Surv. (1754) I. i. xvii. 89/2 All the night following..the Rebels enjoyed free Ingate and Outgate. 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. ii. v. 95 It hath five Holes; viz.: for the ingate and outgate of the Vena Cava [etc.]. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. v. xii, Perhaps this shut lake, finding no ingate, will retire to its sources again. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Ingate, ingress or entrance. |
2. A way in, an entrance.
| 1596 Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 665/1 Places..having most convenient..in-gates to the richest partes of the lande. 1606 Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 287 For..mending the ingate into the church. 1812 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1857) I. 105 The ingate or entrance from the shaft into the pit. 1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xx. vii. (1872) IX. 135 Batteries commanding every ingate, and under them are Mines. |
3. Entrance upon life, a period of time, etc.
| 1591 Spenser Ruines Time 47 At the ingate of their berth They crying creep out of their mothers woomb. 1596 ― F.Q. iv. x. 12 Janus auncient, Which hath in charge the ingate of the yeare. |
† 4. concr. That which enters. Usually in pl.: Things which enter; ingoings, incomings, imports; also import duties or dues. Obs.
| 1621 Youghal Council Bk. (1878) 82 The total of the Ingate amounts to 24li. 8s. 4d. The total of the Outgate, 71li. 12s. 1646 Mass. Col. Rec. (1854) III. 92 So long as our ingate exceeds our outgate, y⊇ ballance..cann leave vs but litle mony once in y⊇ yeere. 1701 in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 294 Sandiford..did take y⊇ tolls of y⊇ Ingates and Outgates. 1714 Ibid. II. 44 The Collector of the Ingates and Outgates. 1886 Picton Ibid., The ingates and outgates..a sort of octroi levied on all carts with articles of food and provender passing in and out of the town. |
† B. (?) adv. Inwards. Obs.
| 1590 in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 90 Evrie owner..shall enter his said Vessell w{supt}{suph} the Town's Customer of this towne, owte gate and ingate. 1611 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 464 Goodes..transported either outgate or ingate. |
▪ II. ˈingate, n.2 Founding.
[f. in adv. + gate n.4]
(See quots.)
| 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Ingate, an aperture in a mould for pouring in metal; technically called the tedge. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 1183/1 The ingate is technically called the tedge, gate, geat, or git. |