n. — Prince Edward Island
a lane or driveway.
Type: 2. Preservation — In PEI, the noun gate is used in the special meaning of lane or driveway. This sense is derived from the archaic meaning of 'a way, road, or path' which, according to OED-3 (s.v. "gate" (n.2)), currently still appears in Scottish English and other northern dialects of British English (from Old Norse gata 'road'). Though it is likely that the term has been preserved from these BrE dialects through settlers in the province, it is unclear how the semantic narrowing to a lane or driveway occurred. The evidence suggests that gate is largely limited to the spoken and informal language (see the 1895 and 1988 quotations).
See also COD-2, s.v. "gate2" (2), which is marked "Cdn (PEI)", DPEIE, s.v. "gate".