▪ I. † tide-gate1 Obs.
[f. tide n. 7 + gate n.2]
= tideway.
| 1557 W. Towrson in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 113 Like vnto a streame or tyde gate. 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe 8 Now..graueld vp, and the streame or tyde gate turned another way. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4), Tidegate, in Navigation is where the Tide runs strongest. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v. Tide, When the Tide runs very strong, they call it a Tide Gate. 1711 Sibbald Descr. Shetland 3 The Rousts and high tide-gates of the Sea about the Promontories and the Isles. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |
▪ II. tide-gate2
[f. as prec. + gate n.1]
A gate through which the water passes into a dock or the like at flood-time, and by which it is retained during the ebb.
| 1755 Johnson, Tidegate, a gate through which the tide passes into a bason. 1838 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 410/2 As the embankments rise, the tide-gates will be arranged so as to regulate the quantity of water inside the bays. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Tide-gate, the entrance gate of a dock. |