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plural ingates
(obsolete) entrance; ingress quotations
[…] which hath in charge the ingate of the yeare.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 12
(obsolete) The aperture in a mould for pouring in the metal; the gate.