| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| lych-gate |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  l ch g t |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or lych gate also lich gate |
| NOUN: | A roofed gateway to a churchyard used originally as a resting place for a bier before burial. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English lycheyate : lyche, corpse, body (from Old English l c; see lk- in Appendix I) + gate, yate, gate; see gate1.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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