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Gate-posts

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The post on which the gate hangs and swings is called the “hanging-post”; that against which it shuts is called the “banging post.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Garratt (g hard)
Garraway’s
Garrote or Garotte
Garter (g hard)
Garvies
Gasconade
Gaston (g hard)
Gastrolators
Gat-tooth (g hard)
Gate Money
Gate-posts
Gate of Italy
Gate of Tears [Babelmandeb]
Gath (g hard)
Gathered
Gathers (g hard)
Gauche (French, the left hand)
Gaucherie
Gaudifer (g hard)
Gaudy-day (A)
Gaul (g hard)