gateless

Without a gate.

Adjective

  1. Without a gate.
    • The metals from Upnor to the boarded-up Tankfield signal box (by a gateless level crossing) were very rarely used. - 1941 May, J. Ronald Hayton, “The Chattenden & Upnor Narrow-Gauge Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page...
    • Anthony Sparno’s days are usually filled with silent hours tending his gateless 12-acre cemetery. - 2007 March 18, Roja Heydarpour, “At Muslim Resting Place, 5 New Child-Size Graves”, in New York Times:
  2. Boundless; unrestricted.
    • First, Negroes are trapped—as many whites are trapped—in inherited, gateless poverty. - 2004, Ronald H. Bayor, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, →ISBN:
    • We're left to our own devices, you and I, emancipated and gateless. - 2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel, →ISBN:
    • He had assumed he would always be independent and gateless. - 2018, Michael Ondaatje, Warlight, →ISBN, page 278:

Origin

From gate + -less.

Derived

gatelessness