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ALMOXDBURT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 53 Gantry, or Oantree, %b. a frame to set casks upon. Gapstead (pronounced gapsteed, or gapstid), an interval in a field wall intended for a gate, or merely used for the passage of cattle. If the interval be of an accidental nature, arising from the falling of the wall, &c , it is simply a * gap.' Oamet. See Mungo. Garth, sb. a yard, croft, &c. ; the same word as yard. A dackgarth is a stackyard. So 'gate' and 'yate' are interchangeable except when * gate ' means way. [IceL gariSr; A.S. geard, — W. W. S.] Gassy, adj. boasting ; bumptious, &c. Used in Huddersfield, but not mudi in Almondbury. Ghkt, or Gate, the same as got, past tense of to get. Gate, sh. a street, or way in general. ' Get out o' my gate ' = ' Get out of my way.' Very common in the names of streets, &c. : North- aate, Weatgatef Kiikgatey Castle^afe, &c., in Huddersfield ; Keldgate and MmBtf^T'iaooTgaie in Beverley; Micklegra^ and Monk^a^ in Tork; Brig^ote in Leeds ; Deans^at« in Manchester ; Skelter</a^ in Almond- bury, &c. As might be imagined, gate for way is an old usage. See Bobin Hood and Ovy of Oish&mej ver. 13 : ' As often words they breeden bale, So parted Bobin and John ; Ajid John is gone to Bamesdale, The gatea he knoweth eche one.' Gatewards (pronounced gat^ards ; gl. gait'urds), used chiefly in the expression ' to go agate' ards^^ i. e. to accompany part of tihe way. See Agate'arda. GhkumleM, adj. senseless. [Icel. gaumr, heed, attention. — ^W. W. S.] GhkV, past tense of to give, Gavlook, or Gavelook, sh. a crowbar : formerly spelt gaveloke, or favylohe, and meant a spear or javelin. In Omnberland a crowbar IS called a javelin. [A.S. ga^eluCy diminutive of geafle, a lever. — W. W. S.] Gawby, same as Gk>by. Gawkbanded, or Gawkyhanded, left-handed Gears (pronounced geerz — g hard^ harness for horses, &c. The singular is applied to all kinds of nousehold goods and implements. The phrase 'out of gear* is equivalent to 'out of health. In the ' Cohphizacio ' {Toumdey Myderiea) a similar phrase seems to be applied to mental aberration : < He is inwardly flayde, not right in his gereJ Gee, a word' used to horses when they are intended to go away from the driver's side. See Haw.