Eate

Quick meaning: Eate is a verb meaning Obsolete spelling of eat.

Meaning

Obsolete spelling of eat.

Example Sentences

[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.

Word Forms

• eates
• eating
• eateing
• eaten

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drinke, worke, bringe, hauing, steale, growe.

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