boutgate

== Scots == === Etymology === bout (“about”) +‎ gate. Compare boutgates, used adverbially either as a shortening of a phrase like by boutgates or as a survival of the adverbial -s. === Noun === boutgate (plural boutgates) roundabout way; way around ruse, deceit (mining, possibly obsolete) in a shallow pit, a secondary access path to the surface === References === Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online. “boutgate”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.