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2. Wicket gate - Wikipedia

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   A wicket gate is also used for a stand-alone gate that provides convenient secondary access, for example to the rear of a walled park or garden. The cricket term "wicket" comes from this usage. [7] "The Wicket Gate" is an important feature in John Bunyan's 17th-century Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. As the first stage of the journey ...

3. Gate - Wikipedia

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   The moving part or parts of a gateway may be considered "doors", as they are fixed at one side whilst opening and closing like one. [2] A gate may have a latch that can be raised and lowered to both open a gate or prevent it from swinging. [3] Gate operation can be either automated or manual. Locks are also used on gates to increase security.

4. Portcullis - Wikipedia

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   Portcullis at Desmond Castle, Adare, County Limerick, Ireland The inner portcullis of the Torre dell'Elefante in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy A portcullis (from Old French porte coleice 'sliding gate') is a heavy, vertically closing gate typically found in medieval fortifications. [1]

5. Chain-link fencing - Wikipedia

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   Chain-link fencing showing the diamond patterning A chain-link fence bordering a residential property. A chain-link fence (also referred to as wire netting, wire-mesh fence, chain-wire fence, cyclone fence, hurricane fence, or diamond-mesh fence) is a type of woven fence usually made from galvanized or linear low-density polyethylene-coated steel wire.

6. Category:Types of gates - Wikipedia

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   Doors (5 C, 64 P) T. Torii (5 P) Triumphal arches (2 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Types of gates" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.

7. Platform screen doors - Wikipedia

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   The idea of platform edge doors dates from as early as 1908, when Charles S. Shute of Boston was granted a patent for "Safety fence and gate for railway-platforms". [2] The invention consisted of "a fence for railway platform edges", composed of a series of pickets bolted to the platform edge, and vertically movable pickets that could retract ...