starting gate
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English
Noun
starting gate (plural starting gates)
- (equestrianism, dog racing) A machine used to ensure a fair start in horse or dog racing by opening doors to allow all the racing animals out at the same time.
- 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164:
- Mobile starting-gates and horse-boxes stand parked along the kerbs, and behind every large house, it seems, is a red brick stableyard, gleaming with fresh black-and-white paint and polished steel.
- (figurative) The beginning.
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(equestrianism)
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