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lychgate

lychgate is the alternative form 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 lychgate

plurallychgates

Questions about lychgate

What is lychgate the alternative form of?
Lychgate is the alternative form of lych-gate.

Words near lychgate in the dictionary

  1. lychees
  2. lycheetini
  3. lycheetinis
  4. lyches
  5. lychfield
  6. lychgate
  7. lychgates
  8. Lychnapsia
  9. lychnic
  10. lychnis
  11. lychnises

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