Definition of "eate" [eate]

• Obsolete spelling of eat. (verb)

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• "And they go with a great pot made of wood or fine earth, and couered, tied with a broad girdle vpon their shoulder, which cometh vnder their arme, wherewith they go to begge their victuals which they eate, which is rice, fish, and herbs."
• "(M389) Then we offered them meate to eate, but they refused it, and made vs vnderstand that they were accustomed to wash their face and to stay vntill the Sunne were set before they did eate, which is a ceremonie common to all the Indians of Newe France."
• "Pustosero, are diuers and innumerable nations, which by one common name are called Samoged (that is) such as eate themselues."