Burh-geat

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-gat, burg-, es;

burh-geat

pl. nom. acc. u. a. o; n. A city-gate; urbis porta :-- Æt burhgeate at the city-gate, Cd. 111; Th. 146, 22; Gen. 2426. Mid ðam ðe ða burhgata belocene wurdon cum portœ clauderentur, Jos. 2, 5. Fóre burg-geatum before the city-gates, Andr. Kmbl. 1679; An. 842: Exon. 120a; Th. 461, 20; Hö. 38. burh-geat