Meanings
present singular third person goes between · participle present going between · past went between · participle past gone between
- ambitransitiveTo occupy the position or interval that separates (two or more things); to intercede.
Burn bright, through the night; two pockets lead the way. Two doors to go between; the wall was raised today.
1985 June 10, R.E.M., “Life and How to Live It”, in Fables of the Reconstruction1 more example
At Dover where we go from the main road, a triangular piece of about 350 feet, which is about ten feet below the road, between the canal and the road, there is a small house on the property, and it goes between the house and this wall that separates the road, I estimated that at fifty cents a running foot.
1909, Jersey City Water Supply Company, et al., defendants, In Chancery of New Jersey, Between the Mayor and Aldermen of New Jersey, Complainant, and the Jersey City Water Supply Company Et Als., Defendats; on Bill, Etc: Testimony for defendants, Feb. 17, 1909, page 5725
Origin
Phrasal verb from go and between.
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