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lichgate

lichgate 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 lichgate

plurallichgates

Questions about lichgate

What is lichgate the alternative spelling of?
Lichgate is the alternative spelling of lych-gate.

Words near lichgate in the dictionary

  1. lichesterol
  2. lichexanthone
  3. lichexanthones
  4. lichfield
  5. lichfields
  6. lichgate
  7. lichgates
  8. lichhood
  9. lichi
  10. lichid
  11. lichids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lichgate (page history and authors); lych-gate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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