NOUN
- a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals
How To Use lichgate In A Sentence
- I will instance only lich, ‘a dead carcase, whence lichwake, the time or act of watching by the dead; lichgate, the gate through which the dead are carried to the grave; Lichfield, the field of the dead, a city in Staffordshire, so named from martyred Christians. On Dictionaries