Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gate in an irrigation-canal operated in such a way that it can be opened by dropping a shutter.
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Examples
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In drop-gate cribs, the top five or six inches of one side can fold down to allow parents easier access but still offer protection for the infant.
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'I want you to ride up to the drop-gate, with your hundred men, and I want you to relieve the defenders of their command.'
Ironhand's Daughter Gemmell, David 1995
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He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop-gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him that it was a trap.
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He would go down the hillside into the cultivated lands by night, and look very curiously at the villagers in their huts, but he had a mistrust of men because Bagheera showed him a square box with a drop-gate so cunningly hidden in the jungle that he nearly walked into it, and told him it was a trap.
The Jungle Book. 1893
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The Suffolk law, which takes effect in February, does not affect drop-gate cribs in which the crib side remains stationary, but the top part of one side folds down outside the crib for easy access.
unknown title 2009
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Babyland does sell drop-gate cribs, in which just the top portion of the crib side folds down on a hinge, where an infant can't reach.
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