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- verb Obsolete spelling of
eat .
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Examples
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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.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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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.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(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.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Pustosero, are diuers and innumerable nations, which by one common name are called Samoged (that is) such as eate themselues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Stzuchogora toward the mountaine Camenipoias, and the sea with the Ilands thereabout, and the Castle of Pustosero, are diuers and innumerable nations, which by one common name are called Samoged (that is) such as eate themselues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In the mid-1500s, English writer John Heywood penned the phrase "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" in his book of proverbs entitled, A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue.
Sam Dudley: Melo Is Full of... Sam Dudley 2011
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In the mid-1500s, English writer John Heywood penned the phrase "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" in his book of proverbs entitled, A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue.
Sam Dudley: Melo Is Full of... Sam Dudley 2011
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Mr. Ganz believes the Mint has made a marketing decision to cr eate an artificial shortage of proof coins since proofs outsell uncirculated coins by a 3-to-1 ratio.
New Alejandro J. Martinez 2010
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He brief was to create a European Garden City for 40,000 citizens.
Archive 2008-12-01 Hels 2008
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He brief was to create a European Garden City for 40,000 citizens.
The Bauhaus Moved to Tel Aviv Hels 2008
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