Stairgate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Stairgate is a noun meaning A gate fitted across a domestic staircase to prevent young children from climbing the stairs, or falling down them.
Meaning
A gate fitted across a domestic staircase to prevent young children from climbing the stairs, or falling down them.
Example Sentences
There should be a stairgate and the door to the garden should be secured so that children cannot get out unsupervised[…]
Perhaps she has to buy a new stairgate, fireguard, or fit in a lamp. This may be a big dip in her purse, but in this financial comparison it is trivial.
At this point you realise that you're also on edge because the kids don't know this house, and the eldest might be sleepwalking and there are no stairgates[…]
Word Forms
- stairgates
- stair gate
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stile, stair, stairway, stairchair, staircase, guardrail.
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