gateless
English
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editgateless (not comparable)
- Without a gate.
- 1941 May, J. Ronald Hayton, “The Chattenden & Upnor Narrow-Gauge Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:
- The metals from Upnor to the boarded-up Tankfield signal box (by a gateless level crossing) were very rarely used.
- 2007 March 18, Roja Heydarpour, “At Muslim Resting Place, 5 New Child-Size Graves”, in New York Times[1]:
- Anthony Sparno’s days are usually filled with silent hours tending his gateless 12-acre cemetery.
- (by extension) Boundless; unrestricted.
- 2004, Ronald H. Bayor, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, →ISBN:
- First, Negroes are trapped—as many whites are trapped—in inherited, gateless poverty.
- 2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel, →ISBN:
- We're left to our own devices, you and I, emancipated and gateless.
- 2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, page 278:
- He had assumed he would always be independent and gateless.
Translations
editwithout a gate
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