Margate

See also: margate

English

Alternative forms

• Meregate (historical/archaic spelling)

Proper noun

Margate

1. A coastal town in Thanet district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3570).
   • 1847, “Vote for Alderman Johnson”, in Punch, volume XIII, page 40:

     Alderman Johnson condemns the Reform Act, and is for going backward, in all things, to the good times. Punch humbly suggests that every man who votes for the Crab Alderman should be punished as follows:— The said voter never to be permitted to travel by rail, but to journey to York or elsewhere by the very slowest coach. Never to go to Margate by steamboat, but to take three days to the voyage, per hoy. Never to send a letter by penny-post, but to pay 10d. or 13d., as the case may be—the good old price of the good old times.

2. A city in Florida, United States.
3. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
4. A community of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
5. A town in Tasmania, Australia.

Derived terms

• Margate City

Anagrams

• art game, regmata