Yett
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Yett is a noun meaning (Scotland, Geordie) Gate.
Meaning
(Scotland, Geordie) Gate.
More Meanings
- A gate made of iron bars, used for defensive purposes in castles and other buildings, which is hinged to open like a door, rather than being raised and lowered like a portcullis.
- Obsolete spelling of yet.
Example Sentences
They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; […]
So when the L. Chauncellor or Keeper passeth anie patent by imediate warrant, yett the fees of the Clerke of the Seale and Signett are ordered to be awnswered, and yett theie doe noething for them.
The outer yett was closed, and a torch burned in a socket set in the gatehouse wall beside the archway. A guard stepped up, peered through the yett at Guillaume, and nodded to someone off to the side.
... yett was solid . At Doune, Perthshire, dating from the latter years of the fourteenth century, the main gateway was defended by a portcullis and a yett at the entrance, and, apparently, by another yett, […]
Word Forms
- yetts
Related Words
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