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gote en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡoʊt/ (US)
• /ɡəʊt/ (UK)

Etymology

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gota, *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic *gotā, from Proto-Germanic *gutǭ (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

Meanings

1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
   • ... Sculcoates Gote to the Humber, after which it became the new waterway, so as to float large vessels from its mouth, northward to the point called "Sudcoates Gote, near the Charter House." Subsequently, disputes and much[…] 1871, The Antiquary, page 132:
   • ... "Sculcoates gote to the mid- stream of the river Humber" is mentioned. The following extract from Lord John Russell's Memoirs of Thomas Moore (vol. v. p. 28.) may throw light on the site of this gote, one of the[…] 1854, Notes and Queries, page 402:
   • ... Sculcoates gote to the Humber, for the purpose of draining the marshes within his lordship. In the south aisle of the church of Sutton, were formerly to be seen the arms of the family in glass, and at a later period there was in the[…] 1857, James Joseph Sheahan, T. Whellan, History and Topography of the City of York: The Ainsty Wapentake; and the East Riding of Yorkshire; Embracing a General Review of the Early History of Great Britain, and a General History and Description of the County of York, page 377:
   • [In 44 Eliz.] a great controversie did arise in Co. Lincoln, about building of two new gotes at Skirbeck and Langrate (Langrick), for the draining of waters out of South Holland Fens into Boston Haven, which Sir Edward Dymoke with his friends supported. 1874, Charles Henry J. Anderson, The Lincoln pocket guide, page 31:
   • [73.] Much hurte and damage being done to many townshipps by reason of two gotes or water-sewers, thone of them passing by Snape Mill to the Swale, thother coming from Firbie to Leeminge becke, both having been for long unscoured and growne upp with mudd and weedes, whereby the water overfloweth divers men's granules &c : Ordered that all such inhabᵗˢ as possess anie groundes adjoyning to either side of the aforesaid gotes* shall yearly, from henceforth, between Pentecost and Michaelmas scoure the same, and every inhabᵗ. so adjoyninge and neglecting to scour &c, as aforesaid, to forfeit, for everie rood so unscoured, 3s. 4d.: and the same, on just complaint at Michˢ. Sessions, to be estreated […] For gote see gaut, Vol. II., p. 176 and note; and for water-sewer See I. 200, and note, and II. 9. 1885, North Riding Records: V. 1-9, 1883-92; N. S. V. 1-4, 1894-97, page 121 [THIRSK, OCTOBER 2, 1621]
2. (UK, dialectal) A drainage pipe.
3. (Northern-England, Scotland, UK, dialectal) A deep miry place.

Forms

Relateds

ingot · gotch