Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of a gate-hinge which is driven into the post and supports the leaf attached to the gate.
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Examples
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The energy and thought that had been bestowed upon this little matter of avoiding a gate-hook would have built a bridge across
A Bird-Lover in the West Olive Thorne Miller 1874
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