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yete

yete is the alternative form of yet.

Meaning of yet

Verb (1)

yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yet or yetted, past participle yet or yetted or yoten)

  1. (obsolete) To pour.
    • […] & stablenes of perseueraunce; graunt me for all wor[l]dly consolacyons the swete, gracyous vnccyon of the holy goost, & for all carnall loue1502, William Atkynson (translator), De Imitatione Christi, in 1893, John Kells Ingram, The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi, page 221
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).
    • […] whiche shall present him selfe openly stained or embrued with sondry colours, or poudered with the duste of stones that he cutteth, or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten.1531 (edition reprinted 1880), Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Gouernour, page 48

Verb (2)

yet (third-person singular simple present yets, present participle yetting, simple past yot, past participle yotten)

  1. (West-Country, nonstandard) To get.

See all 12 meanings of yet

Forms of yete

third-person singular presentyetes
present participleyeting
pastyeted
pastyote
past participleyeted
past participleyote
past participleyoten

Words formed from yete

Questions about yete

What is yete the alternative form of?
Yete is the alternative form of yet.

Words near yete in the dictionary

  1. yeswomen
  2. yet
  3. yet again
  4. yet alone
  5. yet's
  6. yete
  7. Yetholm
  8. Yetholme
  9. Yethrib
  10. yeti
  11. yeti boot

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