Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of an ancient Germanic people of southern Sweden conquered by the Swedes in the sixth century AD.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of jet.
  • noun See get, 2.
  • noun The hole through which metal runs into a mold in castings.
  • noun In type-founding, the little spout or gutter made in the “brim of a casting-ladle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Founding) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.

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  • noun history A member of a North Germanic tribe formerly occupying modern Götaland in Sweden.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Old English Gēat.]

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From Old English Gēat, from Proto-Germanic *gautaz (“Geat”).

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Examples

  • It's not, as I say, * too* risible; it's just that you kinda keep expecting Beowulf to drag some hapless Geat out of a drunken stupor and shout, GET YER TROUSERS ON, SONNY BOY!

    I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn! Hal Duncan 2007

  • Beowulf the Geat (Ray Winstone), whose greatest skill is masculine posturing, soon arrives to slay the monster.

    Movie Review: Beowulf 2007

  • Beowulf the Geat (Ray Winstone), whose greatest skill is masculine posturing, soon arrives to slay the monster.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • It's not, as I say, * too* risible; it's just that you kinda keep expecting Beowulf to drag some hapless Geat out of a drunken stupor and shout, GET YER TROUSERS ON, SONNY BOY!

    Archive 2007-11-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • Geat Neil, and when your kid dies of cystic fibrosis at 8 years old when he could have been saved by stem cell therapy (we would have a 6 year head start with government support by now) I hope you take great solice in your words – as you bury your son.

    Think Progress » Bush Bars Media From Stem Cell Veto 2006

  • Geat Neil, and when your kid dies of cystic fibrosis at 8 years old when he could have been saved by stem cell therapy (we would have a 6 year head start with government support by now) I hope you take great solice in your words – as you bury your son.

    Think Progress » Bush Bars Media From Stem Cell Veto 2006

  • Geat article, Georgianne! by Sandy Jewell on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 2: 54: 26 PM

    Elie Wiesel: Please Help Us Write about Gaza and Israel 2008

  • Geat comment by Steve Windisch (jibbguy) on Monday, Apr 14, 2008 at 6: 08: 43 PM xxx by Tony Forest on Monday, Apr 14, 2008 at 3: 37: 04 PM

    Patrolling for Trolls 2008

  • Geat movie. i wish i had figured out that it was a tearjerker. i hate those kind of movies. very profound, it made u tear up.

    Will Smith's Seven Pounds Gets a Trailer, Too « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • GayandRight: Geat ready for some more insults to muslims...

    Geat ready for some more insults to muslims... GayandRight 2007

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