gate vs gait
Definitions
verb
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- supply with a gate
noun
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- total admission receipts at a sports event
Examples
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
For all the abuse, there are moments of unmitigated delight as well.
He saw something glinting in the streetlight, and went over to investigate.
Definitions
noun
- a person's manner of walking
- the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
- a horse's manner of moving
Examples
It is a dialect form of Old Fr. gaite, cognate with watch.
In deep snow, a pair of gaiters is also useful to prevent snow from cascading over your boot tops.
Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile.
