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lich-gate

lich-gate is the alternative spelling of lych-gate.

Meaning of lych-gate

Noun

lych-gate (plural lych-gates)

  1. A churchyard gateway with a roof, under which a corpse was laid during a funeral to await the arrival of the clergyman.
    • If you take the turn to the left, after you pass the lyke-gate at Combehurst Church, …1851, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, The Moorland Cottage, HTML edition, Project Gutenburg, published 2004

Forms of lich-gate

plurallich-gates

Questions about lich-gate

What is lich-gate the alternative spelling of?
Lich-gate is the alternative spelling of lych-gate.

Words near lich-gate in the dictionary

  1. lich lords
  2. lich wake
  3. lich wakes
  4. lich way
  5. lich-field
  6. lich-gate
  7. lich-gates
  8. lich-house
  9. lich-houses
  10. lich-king
  11. lich-lord

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