jeat

English

Noun

jeat (plural jeats)

1. Obsolete form of jet.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, “A Funeral Elegy”, in Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, editors, The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, volume 5, published 1810, page 179:

     'T is loss to trust a tomb with such a guest, / Or to confine her in a marble chest, / Alas! what's marble, jeat, or porphyry,

   • 1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, in Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested. […], volume II (I–S), London: […] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis […], and S[amuel] Austen […], →OCLC:

     There is also a factitious jeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineral jeat.

   • 1758, Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, volume 28, page 10:

     To make a Grey Colour.
     Take iron ſcales, a little criſtal, and ſome ſmall quantity of jeat, grind theſe well together upon a painter's ſtone; the more jeat ye take, the ſadder the colour will be, and likewiſe the more criſtal you put to it the lighter.

Anagrams

• Jate