back-gate
[back a. 1, back- A. 5.]
A gate at the back of, or leading to the rear part of, a house or other premises.
| 1442 Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 9 Al man that has back yettes close thaim. 1632 Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry iv. ii. sig. H4v Let the Coach be brought To the backe gate. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 45 ¶1, I was let in at the Back-gate of a lovely House. 1818 [see little a. 1 a]. 1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metrop. xxxvi. 307 When Mrs. Ferret came home from prayer-meeting she entered by the back gate. 1905 J. London War of the Classes 274, I battered on the drag and slammed back gates with them, or shivered with them in box cars and city parks. |