hell gate

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See also: hellgate, Hellgate, and Hell Gate

English

Etymology

From Middle English helle gate, helle-ȝate, from Old English helleġeat, corresponding to hell +‎ gate.

Pronunciation

Noun

hell gate (uncountable)

  1. The entrance to hell, seen as an embodiment of evil.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      A Tigre forth out of the wood did rise, / That with fell clawes full of fierce gourmandize, / And greedy mouth wide gaping like hell-gate, / Did runne at Pastorell her to surprize […].
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book LI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      And now great deeds / Had been achieved, whereof all Hell had rung, / Had not the snaky Sorceress, that sat / Fast by Hell-gate and kept the fatal key, / Risen, and with hideous outcry rushed between.
    • c. 1825, William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel:
      Thine loves the same world that mine hates; / Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.

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