Crossword clues for gatehouse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gatehouse \Gate"house`\ (g[=a]t"hous`), n. A house connected or associated with a gate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence. 2 (context archaic English) A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall 3 A shelter for a gatekeeper. n. 1 A lodge besides the entrance to an estate; often the residence of a gatekeeper; also a dwelling formerly used as such a residence. 2 (context archaic English) A fortified room over the entrance to a castle or over the gate in a city wall 3 A shelter for a gatekeeper.
WordNet
n. a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence
Wikipedia
A gatehouse, in architectural terminology, is a building enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a castle, manor house, fort, town or similar buildings of importance.
A gatehouse, gate house, outlet works or valve house for a dam is a structure housing sluice gates, valves, or pumps (in which case it is more accurately called a pumping station). Many gatehouses are strictly utilitarian, but especially in the nineteenth century, some were very elaborate.
A set of outlet works is a device used to release and regulate water flow from a dam. Such devices usually consist of one or more pipes or tunnels through the embankment of the dam, directing water usually under high pressure to the river downstream. These structures are usually used when river flow exceeds the capacity of the power plant or diversion capacity of the dam, but do not have flows high enough to warrant the use of the dam spillways. They may also be utilized when river flows must be bypassed due to maintenance work in the power station or diversion gates. Although similar in purpose to spillways, outlet works provide a more controlled release to meet downstream flow requirements.
A typical set of outlet works begins in an intake structure, which is usually a canal or intake tower. A regulating gate or valve controls water flow into the pipes of the outlet works, which discharge downstream into a stilling basin or directly into the river. The inlets of the outlet works may consist of either gates or valves, or be composed of a more primitive system of stoplogs. Inlets may also contain a series of other devices for different purposes, including trash racks and fish screens.
Gatehouse or Gate house may refer to:
- Gatehouses, defensive or decorative gates in the form of buildings
- Gatehouse (waterworks), a building housing water control devices for a dam
- Gate House, a residence of Victoria College in the University of Toronto
- GateHouse Media, a newspaper publisher in the United States
- Gatehouse of Fleet, a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Usage examples of "gatehouse".
Special Operations volunteers endured, everyone in the Ampersand group was grateful for the program of calisthenics, combat sports, and Swimming that Major Warren had imposed during the months at Gatehouse.
Gorloic, and laying a hand to his hilt he rushed forward through the antechamber and into the gatehouse, his friends coming hard on his heels.
The central gatehouse was flanked by two defensive towers, both of them loopholed to sweep the exterior of the gatehouse with arquebus and light artillery fire.
A rather curious bequest consisting of a key which seemed to be of the old gatehouse at Kleetsworth Hall, the family seat.
The windows on the Dovetail side of the gatehouse were larger, and she could see the two corgi dogs outside, peering in through the lead latticework, flabbergasted that they had, through some enormous lacuna in procedure, been left on the outside, wagging their tails somewhat uncertainly, as if, in a world that allowed such mistakes, nothing could be counted on.
They had been readying gabions, great basketwork tubes woven from willow that were filled with earth and stones, and the plan was to fill the moat with the gabions and then swarm over the resultant bridge to assault the gatehouse.
The discovery was made by one Hans Maas, formerly Otto Krippner, returning to his rooms in what was once a gatehouse of the Wyatt estate following his nightly constitutional.
Slung across the saddle, limp and bleeding, I scarce heeded the commotion as the gatehouse guards rallied against the Skaldi who threw themselves in waves at the moat, driving them back coolly with a rain of crossbow-fire.
At the first curtain the shadi held a lantern to her face, motioned her through, and retreated to the shelter of the gatehouse.
WHEN the four men were approaching the west gate, Chiao Tai remarked on the low walls and the modest twostoried gatehouse.
That was how, in that dirty, noisy, disreputable hovel by a gatehouse in a half-built town, we were taken halfway to Olympus the night we saw Perella dance.
She lowered her voice so that neither William nor the porteress at the nearby gatehouse could overhear.
With Sarmon still lying in a heap where Xanthon had knocked him, she would have to climb up to the rampart and flee to the gatehouse, where there would be no shortage of war wizards ready to teleport her back to Arabel.
Gatehouse electronics, VHF and SSB radios, loran, Satnav, Weatherfax, a compact personal computer, and his own brainchild and namesake, the Cat One printer.
But the Mongoose was already out of the wagon and plunging into the open door of the gatehouse, spatha in hand.