A wide, usually wooden gate consisting of five horizontal bars and one or more diagonal braces, typically used as a field gate for livestock or as an entrance to a rural driveway.
A wide, usually wooden gate consisting of five horizontal bars and one or more diagonal braces, typically used as a field gate for livestock or as an entrance to a rural driveway.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(US, informal) A five-dollar bill.
A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
(finance, archaic) Shares at a rate of five percent.
British slang for a fist, or the act of punching someone with it. 'Five' refers to the five fingers on a hand, and a 'bunch' of them curled into a fist makes for a classic bit of colourful Cockney and general British street talk. Threatening someone with a bunch of fives means you're warning them they're about to get decked. It can also be used with dark humour or bravado, and has enough old-school charm to turn up in crime dramas and pub banter alike.
(UK) Tally marks representing 5, made up of four vertical lines crossed by a diagonal line, used to count objects, keep score, etc.
they set out together, and with some difficulty found Gilbert [the horse] with his neck stretched over a five-barred gate, snuffing up the morning-air.