"stand in the gate" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands in the gate",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing in the gate",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood in the gate",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood in the gate",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stand in the gates",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> in the gate"
      },
      "expansion": "stand in the gate (third-person singular simple present stands in the gate, present participle standing in the gate, simple past and past participle stood in the gate)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              173,
              190
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"What brings you to my poor door?\" she cried, speaking high through her nose. \"I cannot bar it. The males of my house are dead and buried; I have neither son nor husband to stand in the gate for me; any beggar can pluck me by the baird[2]—and a baird there is, and that's the worst of it yet!\" she added partly to herself.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To occupy a place or position of advantage, power, or defence."
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_in_the_gate-en-verb-hczYg54n",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To occupy a place or position of advantage, power, or defence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand in the gate"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands in the gate",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing in the gate",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood in the gate",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood in the gate",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stand in the gates",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> in the gate"
      },
      "expansion": "stand in the gate (third-person singular simple present stands in the gate, present participle standing in the gate, simple past and past participle stood in the gate)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              173,
              190
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, Catriona, London; Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson & Sons, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"What brings you to my poor door?\" she cried, speaking high through her nose. \"I cannot bar it. The males of my house are dead and buried; I have neither son nor husband to stand in the gate for me; any beggar can pluck me by the baird[2]—and a baird there is, and that's the worst of it yet!\" she added partly to herself.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To occupy a place or position of advantage, power, or defence."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, dated) To occupy a place or position of advantage, power, or defence."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand in the gate"
}