ingate

in-gate

From in +‎ gate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.ɡeɪt/

ingate (plural ingates)

1. (obsolete) entrance or beginning,
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 12:

     […] which hath in charge the ingate of the yeare.

   • 1879, Adam Lind, Sermons:

     there is no ingate to the conscience

2. (metallurgy) The aperture in a mould for pouring in the metal; the gate; tedge.^[1]

   ingate pin

• “ingate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• eating, giante, tagine, tangie, teaing