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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

stand in the gate en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (dated, idiomatic) To occupy a place or position of advantage, power, or defence.
    • "What brings you to my poor door?" she cried, speaking high through her nose. "I cannot bar it. The males of my house are dead and buried; I have neither son nor husband to stand in the gate for me; any beggar can pluck me by the baird[2]—and a baird there is, and that's the worst of it yet!" she added partly to herself. 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC:

Forms

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stood in the gate Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stood in the gate Tense=Past lexicographic
stands in the gate Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
standing in the gate Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
stand in the gates alternative lexicographic