gateleg
English
WOTD – 28 November 2023
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪtlɛɡ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: gate‧leg
Noun
gateleg (plural gatelegs)
- (furniture, also attributive) A table leg, set into a frame in the form of a gate, that may be swung back to allow a leaf of the tabletop to hang down.
- Synonym: gateleg table
- 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 8, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 90:
- Now that's a nice gateleg table in the corner there. Though of course you'd have to put new hinges on it if you wanted to use the flaps.
Related terms
Translations
table leg set into a frame in the form of a gate
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References
- Compare “gate-leg, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2023; “gateleg table, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
gateleg table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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