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Iron Gate

or Iron Gates

noun

  1. a gorge cut by the Danube through the Carpathian Mountains, between Yugoslavia and SW Romania. 2 miles (3.2 km) long.


Iron Gate

noun

  1. a gorge of the River Danube on the border between Romania and Serbia. Length: 3 km (2 miles) Romanian namePorţile de Fier
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

She said an iron gate, about eight feet high, was installed at a cost of about $45,000 and sidewalk vendors had to be pushed closer to the curb to clear a path in front of the restaurant.

Biologists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife have spotted fall-run Chinook salmon in tributaries miles upstream from where Iron Gate Dam was removed.

Earlier this month, scientists with the nonprofit group California Trout announced they had captured images of the first Chinook salmon swimming upstream from where Iron Gate Dam once stood.

The plan calls for initially supplementing populations of fall-run chinook and coho salmon by raising them at the newly built Fall Creek Fish Hatchery, located on one of the tributary creeks fish can now access upstream from where Iron Gate Dam once stood.

To get to ceramist Raina Lee’s tree house, you enter through an iron gate with a dog warning sign and climb a long wooden staircase that creaks beneath your feet.

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