Definition of "foregate"
foregate
noun
plural foregates
A main entrance or front gate.
Quotations
Further excavation revealed that there had been in the earliest period, perhaps continued to all later times, a foregate, a kind of outer rampart to mask the entrance to the gate so as to require everyone who approached it to do so by a narrow entrance directly in front of the gate and so subject to a concentrated fire of projectiles from the defenders of the gate. This foregate was some fifteen feet in front of the gate itself. At either side of the gate was a great fortress or buttress flanked by a heavy revetement, a fortress also on the north side and a buttress on the south side of the gate.
1926, Bibliotheca Sacra, volume 83