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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Ȝat(e, Yate, n. Also: yait, ȝet, yett, yeth. [Var. of Gate n.1]

1. A way or road. = Gate n.1 1. a1400 Leg. S. xviii 846.
I speryt gyf he cuth … Kene me the gat … To the flume Jordane … he … The vay to the ȝet can me kene
14… Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 246 (see Sled n. 2 a (7)).
Sledeȝat
1672 Acts VIII 109/1.
Begining at the west pairt of Lassuden loning commonlie called Calfeyait and soe dounward [etc.]

b. = Market-gat(e n. b. 1446 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 245.
A lonyng lyand throw the mur betwix twa ald stane dykes begynnand at the merkate yate lyand to Aberdene
14… Reg. Episc. Aberd. I 248.
And swa descendand dovn the den til it cum to the furde and the merkat ȝate

2. A street in a town. = Gate n.1 2. 1598 Chron. Perth 7.
The fische mercat was removit … to the south yait port

3. ? A roadway underground in a mine. (Cf. 18th c. (1747) and later Eng. gate in this sense (OED, s.v. Gate n.2 5)). 1672 Sheriffhall Coal Accompt June 1.
For the four redsmen for beeffing & reding in the yett and casting the sincke that is to be boared in the yett

4. A watercourse (Flude n. 2). 1305 Chart. Coupar A. I 178.
Fluxum aque qui dicitur flodeyeth

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