Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A narrow gorge of the Danube River on the border of Serbia and Romania, in the gap between the Carpathian and Balkan Mountains. Originally hazardous to navigation, the gorge was made passable by a ship canal (1896) and was eventually flooded by a hydroelectric dam (1972).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A famous gorge, about 11/2 miles long, cut by the Danube in the Carpathian mountains near the intersection of Hungary, Serbia, and Rumania.
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Examples
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We are part of the convoy right now and it happened about 10 kilometers right out of town, a place called Iron Gate, where there's a military checkpoint run by government troops.
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This time, however, Huniades did not let them enter Transylvania, but waited for them at the pass, known as the Iron Gate, among the high mountains on the southern boundary of Hungary.
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Clad in a brown leather jacket, the 72-year-old former Soviet colonel is hunkered in the back of the dimly lit Iron Gate restaurant in Washington, DC.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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The Carpathian range stretches from the western border of the Czech Republic to the Iron Gate on the Danube River between Romania and Yugoslavia.
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Even though they do bemuse Moi when they come ringing at the Iron Gate and, having let them enter, I don't recognize them.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Nail, horse-shoe, and cotton tie factory at Iron Gate, Va.
The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 Various 1888
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Between Covington and Iron Gate, the Jackson River has been affected by fish kills the past couple of years but remains full of small bass.
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Sacramento August 6, 2010 - Due to its potential health risks, federal, state, and tribal agencies are urging swimmers, boaters and recreational users to avoid contact with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) now blooming in Copco and Iron Gate
YubaNet.com 2010
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One of my favorites is the Jackson River between Covington and Iron Gate.
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I should have probably put this up top but if you want to go out for a pricey All American meal, you can also try out the Iron Gate in this neigborhood.
Bruins Nation 2009
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