gateleg

English

WOTD – 28 November 2023

Etymology

A gateleg table.

From gate +‎ leg.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪtlɛɡ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: gate‧leg

Noun

gateleg (plural gatelegs)

1. (furniture, also attributive) A table leg, set into a frame in the form of a gate, that may be swung back to allow a leaf of the tabletop to hang down.

   Synonym: gateleg table

   • 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 8, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 90:

     Now that's a nice gateleg table in the corner there. Though of course you'd have to put new hinges on it if you wanted to use the flaps.

Related terms

• gatelegged

Translations

table leg set into a frame in the form of a gate

• Afrikaans: hekpoot
• Finnish: taittopöydän jalka
• Macedonian: но́галка на пре́клопна ма́са f (nógalka na préklopna mása)

Further reading

• gateleg table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia