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English
Etymology
From gate + -wise.
Adverb
gatewise (not comparable)
- Arranged to resemble a gate. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
1876, William Long, Esq., Stonehenge and its Barrows. From the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine, etc. , →OCLC, page 25: they are ioyned by two and two together, and every couple sustaineth a third stone lying overthwart, gatewise, which is fastened by the meanes of tenons that enter into mortaises of those stones not closed with any cement.