What does eate mean?
Eate means Obsolete spelling of eat..
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Obsolete spelling of eat..
[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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Eate means Obsolete spelling of eat..
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[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.
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