gateleg
nounUS, UK /ˈɡeɪtlɛɡ/
Etymology From gate + leg.
1
Furniture, Lifestyle Also A table leg, set into a frame in the form of a gate, that may be swung back to allow a leaf of the tabletop to hang down; having such a leg or legs.
- a gateleg desk; a gateleg shelf
2
Broadly A piece of furniture (especially a table) with a leg or legs of this kind.
- […] the gate-leg at which we used to have afternoon tea had to be taken away into the drawing-room to make place for the piano out of the drawing-room when it was moved in here:1949, Elizabeth Bowen, chapter 6, in The Heat of the Day, pages 107-108:
- Derived terms
- gateleg table
- Related terms
- gatelegged, dropleaf