Meaning of hell gate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The entrance to hell, seen as an embodiment of evil.
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2. A strait in East River, New York City, New York State, United States; the narrowest part of the East River, separating Manhattan and Long Island.

Examples

“A Tigre forth out of the wood did rise, / That with fell clawes full of fierce gourmandize, / And greedy mouth wide gaping like hell-gate, / Did runne at Pastorell her to surprize […].”

“And now great deeds / Had been achieved, whereof all Hell had rung, / Had not the snaky Sorceress, that sat / Fast by Hell-gate and kept the fatal key, / Risen, and with hideous outcry rushed between.”

“Thine loves the same world that mine hates; / Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.”

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