Gateway: alternatives and connections

A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purpo…

A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a d…

A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

A wall built across the ditch of a fortification, with a sluice gate to regulate the height of water in the ditch on both sides of the…

The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways…

A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall…

A frame or wall round the mouth of a well; also, a frame within a well to prevent the earth caving in.

To fence or fortify with stakes; to surround with a line of stakes for defense; to impale.

To make a defense; to guard one's self of anything, as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence.

The art or practice of attack and defense with the sword, esp. with the smallsword. See Fence, v. i., 2.

A term applied, especially in England, to certain machines built upon or within framework; as, a stocking frame; lace frame; spinning…

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which impli…

An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, fig…

A gate keeper; a gate tender.

A post to which a gate is hung; -- called also swinging / hinging post.

A sunk fence; a fence, wall, or ditch, not visible till one is close upon it.

A flood gate; a a sluice gate.

A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also an…