five-barred gate
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
noun
Tally marks representing 5, made up of four vertical lines crossed by a diagonal line, used to count objects, keep score, etc.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
- "[…] they set out together, and with some difficulty found Gilbert [the horse] with his neck stretched over a five-barred gate, snuffing up the morning-air."
- "[…] he rarely allowed himself a day’s hunting; and when he did so, it was remarkable that he submitted to be laughed at for cowardliness at the fences, seeming to see Mary and the boys sitting on the five-barred gate, or showing their curly heads between hedge and ditch."
- "Meanwhile the animals had chased Jones and his men out on to the road and slammed the five-barred gate behind them."
- "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 […]"
- "Items are grouped in fives, and each fifth item is a cross stroke on the first four strokes. Each set of five is sometimes known as a five-bar gate."
Usage
- British usage