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词汇 Taranaki gate
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Definition of Taranaki gate in English:

Taranaki gate

noun
NZ
  • A simple gate made of wires attached to upright battens.

    the children hopped off their horses to open the Taranaki gates
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This example of creating something from nothing is readily demonstrated in that most innovative of constructions: the Taranaki gate.
    • Like the Taranaki gate, he was modest in manner but tough and uncompromising on the things that really count.
    • This Taranaki gate is being used as part of a modern fence.
    • At the last Taranaki gate, I filled a gumboot with water, mud, and cow dung.
    • The Taranaki gate stands as a symbol of rural enterprise.
    • The wire-and-batten Taranaki gate, though ingenious and ubiquitous, is not high on the agenda for most visitors to the province.
    • A chance remark that something be done to thwart the bovine mascot prompted a few council employees to build a Taranaki gate, which was covered with notices.
    • As the Taranaki gate represents a triumph of making do with what is to hand, so does my father's life.
    • The most fortified Taranaki gate is now part of the Whitecliffs Walkway.
    • If the entrance to heaven has a Taranaki gate, then my father will have no problem negotiating it.

Origin

1930s: named after the New Zealand province of Taranaki.

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