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Etymology

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From way +‎ gate.

Noun

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waygate (plural waygates)

  1. The tailrace of a mill.
    • 1849, John Warburton, “Harvey's apparatus for cleansing potters' materials from particles of iron”, in Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel:
      1 and 2 are connected to one pipe, B, which leads to the pitshaft -- descends close to the side of the same — and then passes horizontally along the top of the waygate, whence branches lead off to the different workings where the men are employed

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