English Explanatory Dictionary

gote

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A drain; sluice; ditch or gutter.
  2. A drainage pipe.
  3. A deep miry place.

Word forms

gote gotes gout goat gott

Etymology

From Middle English gote (“a drain”), from Old English *gote (“drain, gutter”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *gutō (“gutter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Dutch goot (“a gutter, drain, gully”), German Gosse (“a gutter”). Related to Old English gutt (“gut, entrails”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour, pour forth, shed, gush, flow, flood, overwhelm, found, cast”). More at gut, yote.

Related words

gotch ingot
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