Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In a canal-lock, one of the lower pair of gates. Also called aft-gate. The upper gates are called head-gates.
  • noun The movable tail-board of a cart or wagon.

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Examples

  • In the 2008 election, feeble attempts were made to duplicate the down-home image of a guy you'd meet at a tail-gate party rather than in a Corporate Skybox.

    Joe Sixpack Speaks Out 2008

  • Thus, you can expect that drivers in cars fitted with this technology will travel faster, knowing the system will bring them to a halt quicker, will leave braking later and will be more likely to tail-gate.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Richard 2007

  • They were having a tail-gate party after a tough, but productive year.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Don Lewis 2007

  • They were having a tail-gate party after a tough, but productive year.

    Blissful Gratitude Bestowing everyone! Don Lewis 2007

  • In the West, who would ever believe that anything as common as beans could ever become anything more than kick-ass burritos and tasty tail-gate chili?

    Japanese Recipe, Live-action Edition: All About Anko | The Anime Blog 2007

  • Thus, you can expect that drivers in cars fitted with this technology will travel faster, knowing the system will bring them to a halt quicker, will leave braking later and will be more likely to tail-gate.

    They're at it again Richard 2007

  • It looks like they might be headed out to a tail-gate party or maybe just to hang out at the Sonic drive in or something.

    Jon Aquino's Mental Garden Jonathan Aquino 2004

  • The conductor unfastened a tail-gate in the guard-rail, and the flagman dropped his prisoner out through the opening.

    Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910

  • It was not long before Waddles was dispensing nourishment from the lowered tail-gate, ladling food and hot coffee into the plates and cups which the men held out to him.

    The Settling of the Sage 1910

  • Waddles dumped off the bed rolls that were piled from the broad lowered tail-gate to the wagon top and each man sorted out his own and spread it upon some spot which struck him as a likely bed ground.

    The Settling of the Sage 1910

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