Geat

According to the Old English Dictionary:

geat

Take here gæt in Dict. , and add : (1) the gate of an enclosure, the opening in a fence or wall to allow passage, and provided with a movable barrier, (a) the enclosure a field :-- Gif ceorlas gærstún hæbben gemǽnne . . . gán þá þe ꝥ geat ágan, Ll. Th. i. 128, 8. (b) where the enclosure contains a habitation :-- Ceorles weorðig sceal beón wintres and sumeres betýned. Gif hé bið untýned and recð his neáhgebúres ceáp in on his ágen geat, Ll. Th. i. 126, 15. On þǽre byrig . . . hié þá gatu him tó belocen hæfdon, Chr. 755; P. 48, 16. Geatu, 901; P. 92, 8. Geatu portas, Ps. Th. 23, 7. Gæeto, Rtl. 18, 40. (b a) the enclosure a city :-- Mihton geseón Winceastre leódan here ꝥ hí be hyra gate tó sǽ eódon, Chr. 1006 ; P. 137, ii. Binnan þám gatum (of Derby), 921; P. 101, 30. Hí betýndon þǽre ceastre gatu, Bl. H. 241, 11. (b β) used figuratively :-- Þurh ꝥ nearwe get (geat, , gætt, L. R.), Lk. 13, 24. Helle gatu (geatt, L.), Mt. 16, 18. Gættana portarum, Rtl. 59, 21. Neirxna wonges gætto paradisi portas, 124, 7. (2) the gate, doorway of a building :-- Geat janua, Wrt. Voc. i. 81, 13. Se wítega geseah án belocen geat on Godes húse (portam sanctuarii), and him cwæð tó sum engel: 'Þis geat ne bið nánum menn geopenod, ac se Hǽlend ána færð inn þurh þæt geat,' Hml. Th. i. 194, 1-4. Gesomnad tó duru l tó gæt (geat, R. ) congregata ad januam, Mk. L. 1, 33. Tó þæs mynstres geate sý geatweard geset . . . Se sylfa geatweard sceal cýtan (cellam) habban wið þæt geat, R. Ben. 126, 15-19. Beforan gatum forþtíges pro foribus uestibuli, An. Ox. 3827. Gesáwon wé in þǽre byrig and on geaton (in the doorways) men . . . ðá hié ús gesáwon hié selfe sóna in heora húsum hié miþan. Nor. 10, 16. (3) a passage between hills :-- Swá Dor scadeþ, Hwítan wylles geat, Chr. 942; P. 110, 15. (4) the barrier which closes the opening: -- Helle geatu and hire þá ǽrenan scyttelas hé ealle tóbræc, Bl. H. 85, 6. [¶ the word alone or in composition occurs often in the Charters, v. Midd. Flur. s. v.] v. ceaster-, deór-, hlid-, hlip-, mynster-, port-, stán-, templ-, tyrn-geat. geat

Related words: l.