Meaning & use
five-bar gate
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Meaning
nouncountable
A wooden farm gate made of five horizontal bars held between two upright ends, often with a diagonal brace.
Grammar: Countable: one five-bar gate, two five-bar gates.
Patterns
- a five-bar gate
- open/close a five-bar gate
The footpath crosses the field and goes through a five-bar gate.
He leaned on the five-bar gate and watched the sheep.
A five-bar gate usually has a diagonal piece of wood for strength.
Word forms
| plural | five-bar gates |
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Common combinations
- lean on a five-bar gate
- She leaned on a five-bar gate and talked to the farmer.
- wooden five-bar gate
- The old wooden five-bar gate had almost rotted away.
- through a five-bar gate
- Drive through the five-bar gate and follow the track.
- five-bar gate latch
- The five-bar gate latch was stiff and hard to lift.
Synonyms and how they differ
- farm gate
- A general term for any gate on a farm; a five-bar gate is one specific wooden design.
- field gate
- Focuses on the gate's position around a field rather than on its five-bar construction.
Word family
Commonly confused: five-bar gate or five-bar?
five-bar gate vs five-bar
On its own, five-bar is just the describing phrase; the full noun is five-bar gate.
Practice
What do you call the wooden gate in a field that has five horizontal bars?
Choose one answer.
'Five-bar gate' names the gate by its five horizontal bars. The other options use five- in unrelated expressions.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “five-bar gate”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.