Citations:gote

English citations of gote

see also goat

gott

• 1813, Ebenezer Picken, Miscellaneous Poems ... Partly in the Scottish Dialect, with a Copious Glossary, page 40:

  Or rake the gotts frae paddock ride / To muck the lan'.

• 1859, Parker, Misc. Poems (quoted in the EDD), page 33:

  I've gather'd hips an' slaes / Wi' thee near the auld gott-fit.

gote

• 1825, John Jamieson, A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement, page 502:

  The gote is deeper than the seuch; the term properly denoting such a ditch as is used for draining marshes. Gut occurs, evidently in the same sense, in Patten's Expedicion into Scotlande. "In the way we shuld go,―ther were li pyles or holdes, Thornton & Anderwike, set both on craggy foundacion, and deuided a stones cast a sunder, by a depe gut wherein ran a litle ryuer.

• 1845, Thomas Wood (reporter to the “Eastern Counties Herald”), Tidal Harbours Commission. […] , page 26:

  ... Sculcoates-gote to the mid-stream of the Humber; but that the franchise of the port, which was also given by the Crown to the Corporation was co-extensive with the utmost limits of the borough, which had been from time to time […]

goit

• 1867, John Roby, Traditions of Lancashire, page 55:

  In troth, 'tis a narrow goit that will not let a drowning man through.

goyt

• 1880, Frank Peel, The Risings of the Luddites, page 46:

  One of them slipped into the mill goyt, and was rescued with some difficulty, loosing his hat in the water.

ghaut

• 1876, Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc, page 77:

  Ghauts [...] I became acquainted with this word at Whitby, [...] it is "a narrow gut or slip, opening at the side of a long or main street, and going down to the sea or harbour beach." The word is only applied to those passages which lead to the harbour; and, as far as I can discover, it is used in no other place in England. But in India it is applied in a similar manner to the approaches to the Ganges.