Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 hlið-, hlidʓeat, 5 lidyate, lyde ȝate, 6 lydyate, 9 lidgitt, Sc. and north. dial. liggat(e, ligget. [OE. hlidʓeat: see LID sb. and GATE sb.1 The pronunciation is in some dialects, from the ME. lidȝate, -yate.] A swing-gate; a gate set up between meadow or pasture and plowed land or across the highway to prevent cattle from straying.
854. in Birch, Cartul. Sax. (1887), II. 63. Ærest on dic: þonne upp uuið hliðʓeatas.
909. in Earle, Land Charters (1888), 290. Ærest on icenan æet brombrigce up & lang weʓes to hlidʓeate.
1441. Plumpton Corr. (Camden), lix. Parte went into the towne of Helperby … and their festned a lidyate in the highway at the towne end of Helperby toward Yorke, with stoks, thorns, and otherwise.
a. 1450. Myrc, 1497. Hast þow ay cast vp lyde ȝate Þere bestus haue go in ate?
1557. Scotter Manor Roll, in Archæologia (1881), XLVI. 379. That euery man shall sufficiently make their Lydyates in time convenient.
1790. J. Fisher, Poems, 107. They brak’ the liggat o’ the yard, Ay, a’ in smash.
1847. Halliwell, Lidgitts,… [Isle of Axholme]. Linc.
1874. A. Hislop, Sc. Anecd., 325. At another time when ‘right about wheel’ was required, he attained his object by asking them to ‘come round like a ligget, lads!’
1881. J. Younger, Autobiog., iv. 35. Her an’ the bits o’ lasses were out list’ning for us at the head o’ the liggate as we came up.
