Etymograph

English

screwgate

From screw + gate.

A compound of screw + gate

Middle English screw

English screw

Proto-Germanic *gatą ‘hole, opening’

Proto-West Germanic *gat ‘opening, gate’

Old English ġeat ‘gate, door’

Middle English gate ‘gate’

English gate

Today it means

noun A kind of carabiner that is fastened by means of a screw thread.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “screwgate”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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