Dictionary

gateleg en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡeɪtlɛɡ/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

From gate + leg.

Meanings

1. (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; having such a leg or legs.
   • a gateleg desk; a gateleg shelf
2. (broadly) A piece of furniture (especially a table) with a leg or legs of this kind.
   • […] the gate-leg at which we used to have afternoon tea had to be taken away into the drawing-room to make place for the piano out of the drawing-room when it was moved in here: 1949, Elizabeth Bowen, chapter 6, in The Heat of the Day, pages 107-108:

Forms

Deriveds

gateleg table

Relateds

gatelegged · dropleaf

Translations (3)

fi taittopöydän jalka (table leg set into a frame in the form of a gate) · mk но́галка на пре́клопна ма́са (table leg set into a frame in the form of a gate) · af hekpoot (table leg set into a frame in the form of a gate)