Used by the farmers in some parts of New England to signify a sort of gate without hinges.--Pickering's Vocabulary. This word is also used in Norfolk, England. Mr. Forby calls it "a sort of coarse rough gate of sawn wood, not hung, but driven into the ground by pointed stakes, like a hurdle, used for the same purposes of sub-dividing lands, stopping gaps in fences, &c. and deriving its name from the necessity of lifting it up for the purpose of passing through. In Suffolk, a lift differs from a gate, in having the projecting ends of the back and lower bar let into mortice holes in the posts, into and out of which it must be lifted."--Norfolk Glossary.
v. tr. to drive to market from the run. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' c. iv. p. 45: ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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