Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A variant of
mute .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute.
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Examples
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In this parke is severall ponds wch affords good ffish, as does ye moate and ye Trent as trout, Eeles, tench, perch &c, the Largest perch I ever saw just Caught and dress'd immediately wch Eates in perfection.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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His seate stands very finely by ye river Trent; there is also a moate almost round ye house.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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They came over the moate in lether boats, and so to his chamber, where one of his servants, named Houlcrofte, was slaine, being his chamberlaine; the other basely betrayed his master; -- they payed him a great reward, and so coming away with him, they hanged him at a tree in Bewsey
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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