Obs. [See GATE sb.1]

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  1.  Sc. Way or passage over land; also used advb. = by land. Also † Landgates adv., ? landward, away from the sea.

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1536.  Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. 143. He began to … come landgait ouir the riveir of Levin.

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1637.  Rutherford, Lett. (1862), I. 456. If ye … wd have only summer weather and a land-gate not a sea-way, to heaven.

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1765.  Ross, Helenore (1789), 95. Land-gates unto the hills she took the gate.

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  2.  (See quot.)

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1726.  Kersey, Landgate, a long and narrow Piece of Land.

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