lych-gate or lych gate also lich gate (l ch g t )n. A roofed gateway to a churchyard used originally as a resting place for a bier before burial. [Middle English lycheyate : lyche, corpse, body (from Old English l  c; see lk- in Indo-European roots) + gate, yate, gate; see gate1.] |
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