stand in the gate
English
Alternative forms
- stand in the gates
Verb
stand in the gate
- To occupy places of advantage, power, or defence.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for stand in the gate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)