five-barred gate

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wide, usually wooden gate consisting of five horizontal bars and one or more diagonal braces, typically used as a field gate for livestock or as an entrance to a rural driveway.
    — The only revenge which the younger Clergy cou’d return, wou’d be […] to order that whosoever cou’d not read a Geneva-Bible at two yards distance and vault over a five-barr’d Gate, should forfeit his Mitre […]
  2. Tally marks representing 5, made up of four vertical lines crossed by a diagonal line, used to count objects, keep score, etc. UK
    — When we come to the fifth score we do not make a further upright stroke, but a diagonal stroke from top right to bottom left across the previous four—and this stroke completes the Five-Barred Gate […]

词形变化

five-barred gates plural five-bar gate alternative
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