Meaning of eate | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of eat.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“[O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work⟳ and sleep⟳, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end⟳.”

“The stronger Beere is divided into two parts ( viz.) mild and stale; the first may ease a man of a drought, but the later is like⟳ water cast⟳ into a Smiths forge, and breeds more heartburning, and as rust eates into Iron⟳, so overstale Beere gnawes auletholes in the entrales, or else my skill failes, and what I have⟳ written of it is to be held as a jest.”

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