Word.ws English Dictionary

lyke-gate

lyke-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

Questions about lyke-gate

What is lyke-gate the alternative spelling of?
Lyke-gate is the alternative spelling of lych-gate.

Words near lyke-gate in the dictionary

  1. lyings
  2. lyings-in
  3. lyk
  4. lyke
  5. lyke gate
  6. lyke-gate
  7. lyke-wake
  8. lyke-wakes
  9. lykegate
  10. lykes
  11. lyketh

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lyke-gate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “lyke-gate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lyke-gate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.