eate

English

Verb

eate (third-person singular simple present eates, present participle eating or eateing, simple past ate, past participle eaten)

1. Obsolete spelling of eat
   • 1612-1622: Clements R Markham (editor), The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1880-1881

     [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.

   • 1637, John Taylor, The Famovs Historie of the most part of Drinks, in use now in the Kingdomes of Great Brittaine and Ireland:

     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.