Read full poem →Followed like beasts with flap of wings and fins.
Death stood aloof behind a gaping grate,
Upon whose lock was written _Peradventure_.
Dictionary Entry
A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot
In a Sentence
“The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. gratearea gratesurface gratebars grategrate irongrate opengrate firegrate empty
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Poetry examples for “grate”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Doth either to the stage[463] himself transfer,
Or through a grate[464] doth show his double face,
For that the clamorous fry of Inns of Court
Read full poem →By these a Death-in-Life did foully breathe
Out of a face that was one grate of teeth.
Lift, O kind Angels, lift her eyelids loth,
Read full poem →met death by fever. The loss by fever far exceeded
thatin battle. Here let it be said that the heart of a grate-
ful nation goes out to the noble Red Cross Society and
Read full poem →One sigh Zuleika's thought bespoke:
Still gazed he through the lattice grate,
Pale, mute, and mournfully sedate.
Read full poem →The morn was cold, he views with keen desire 15
The rusty grate unconscious of a fire;
With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scor’d,
Read full poem →The morn was cold--he views with keen desire
The rusty grate, unconscious of a fire;
With beer and milk arrears the frieze was scor’d,
Read full poem →And if one ship misbehave,
--Keel so much as grate the ground.
Why, I've nothing but my life,--here's my head!" cries Herve Riel.
Read full poem →And if one ship misbehave,
--Keel so much as grate the ground.
Why, I've nothing but my life,--here's my head!" cries Hervé Riel.
Read full poem →She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up, and all the cottage warm;