gateleg
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪtlɛɡ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: gate‧leg
Noun edit
gateleg (plural gatelegs)
- (furniture, also attributive) A table leg, set into a frame in the form of a gate, that may be swung back to allow a leaf of the tabletop to hang down.
- Synonym: gateleg table
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 8, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 90:
- Now that's a nice gateleg table in the corner there. Though of course you'd have to put new hinges on it if you wanted to use the flaps.
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Translations edit
table leg set into a frame in the form of a gate
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References edit
- ^ Compare “gate-leg, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2023; “gateleg table, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading edit
gateleg table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
