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gote

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of goat.
  • noun A drain, sluice, ditch, or gutter.
  • noun A deep miry place.
  • noun Also spelled goat.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A channel for water.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
  • noun A drainage pipe.
  • noun Northern England, Scotland A deep miry place.

Etymologies

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From Middle English gote ("a drain"), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-Germanic *gutōn (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeud- (“to pour”). Cognate with Dutch goot ("a gutter, drain, gully"), German Gosse ("a gutter"). Related to Old English gutt ("gut, entrails"), Old English ġēotan ("to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast"). More at gut, yote.

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