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back gate en · NOUN
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The gate at the back of a property, especially a residential property, often leading onto a lane.
All walked quietly through the garden, out at the little back gate, and began to climb the hill that lay between the house and river.
1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 13, in Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:On Saturday Ambrosch drove up to the back gate, and Antonia jumped down from the wagon and ran into our kitchen just as she used to do.
1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Book 2, Chapter III:
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