▪ I. gote Chiefly north. dial.
(gəʊt)
Forms: 4– gote, 5–6 goote, 6–9 goat(e, 7–8 gott, 7–9 gaut, goit, 8–9 goyt, 9 gooat. See also gout.
[f. got-, wk. root of OE. ᵹéotan to pour (see yete v.); cf. MLG., MDu. gote (mod.Du. goot, dial. geut) of similar meaning. Cf. also gut.]
1. A watercourse; any channel for water; a stream.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 933 To loke on þe glory of þys gracious gote. a 1400–50 Alexander 5796 As gotis out of guttars in golanand wedres. 1467 Nottingham Rec. II. 380 Two gootes parte of a were, otherwise called a ‘fysshe⁓garth’. 1488 Will of Welby, Lincoln (Somerset Ho.), Dreynis Gotes & high weyes. 1694 De la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 50 There was a plank layd over a little goit or watercourse. 1703 Thoresby Let. to Ray in Philos. Lett. (1718) 329 Goyts of Mills, where the Stream passes out. 1734 Rec. in Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 222, 18 feet broad of rock is to be cut from the southmost end of the basson down to the nearest goat or hollow place. 1788 E. Picken Poems 167 Wi' pettle, owre the rigs I'll stride, At her comman', Or rake the gotts frae paddock-ride To muck the lan'. 1897 British Weekly 14 Jan. 232 Reaching the goit, he walked along its muddy banks, its sluggish waters oozing at his feet. |
2. A sluice (see quot. 1622).
| 1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 5 §1 Weares fisshgarthes Redels gores gootes..and other impedimentes in and vppon the same ryuers. 1584 Lansdowne MS. 74, lf. 181 b, The saide bancke beinge alreadie charged with three goates. 1622 Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 66 Goats be usual Engines..built with percullesses and doors of timber, stone or brick. 1702 Thoresby in Phil. Trans. XXIII. 1159 The..new Sluice or Goat. 1890 Blackw. Mag. Feb. 242, I have often admired the vastness of their gotes and sluices. |
3. (See quot.)
| 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Gaut or Gote, a narrow opening or slip from a street to the shore. |
▪ II. gote, goten
obs. ff. goat, gotten.