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a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals

Hastily she brushed away the gathering tears as the carriage stopped abruptly with a jingle of harness at the lichgate. — The Shadow of the East
They were awaiting the clergyman at the lichgate. — Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
If we have Lichfield and lichgate, we may have lichworm too. — Weird Tales from Northern Seas
This cross has a very well preserved head, and it makes the foreground of a very pretty picture as we look at the battlemented tower of the church through the stone-roofed lichgate grown over with ivy. — Yorkshire
To the west of Cooling Castle, beyond wide fields -- turnips or cabbages -- of the colour of dark-green jade, the Church of Cliffe, with its lichgate, standing out boldly from its ridge of chalk, overlooks a straggling village of old and weather-boarded houses. — Dickens-Land