draw-gate

The starting-judge was about to clang again -- this time more positively -- when there appeared at the draw-gate a new comer, the sight of whose horse and appointments set the grand-stand into a wild roar of mingled laughter and applause.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Then Flecker shot out of the draw-gate and spun merrily around the track, and Col. Troup joined him with Trombine, and the audience watched the three trotters warm up and shouted or applauded each as it spun past the grand-stand.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore