yeat

English

Noun

yeat (plural yeats)

  1. (dialectal, Northern England) Alternative spelling of gate, obsolete except in place names.

See also
  • yett (Geordie & Scottish spelling).

Anagrams

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English yeate, from Old English ġeat.

Noun

yeat

  1. Alternative form of gaaute (“gate”)

References
  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 80
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