yett

[ yet ]

nounChiefly Scot.

gate.

Origin of yett

Scots form of gate¹

Words Nearby yett

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How to use yett in a sentence

The impact, to yett, is one only these girls have the authority to make.
Meet the Liberian Girls Beating Ebola | Abby Haglage | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
This day I went home upon furlow, yesterday Sergent yett went home.
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 | Abraham Tomlinson
But I gripped an oak-ritt and stelled mysel for an hour till the water knockit the yett to sawdust.
The Half-Hearted | John Buchan
As the good mare pressed on unweariedly bridegroom and bride rode up to the 'yett' of 'the Bower' in the late twilight.
Border Ghost Stories | Howard Pease
Whyles that she is yett younge and reckeless, and gif shee bee faste, and hathe naughte to beare homewards, lo!
Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 | Various

yett we beleive we weir not very farr off shore, for we had thousands of birds about us.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period | Various

British Dictionary definitions for yett

yett

/ (jɛt) /

noun

Scot a gate or door

Origin of yett

Old English variant of gate 1

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