dial. Also 4 ȝ(e)ote, pa. pple. ȝotted, 6 yout, vbl. sb. yotting, 6–7 yowt, yeot, 7 yoat. [Local (chiefly west and south-west) development of OE. ʓéotan YET v.]
1. trans. To pour.
a. 1400. New Test. (Paues), Acts ii. 18. Vpon my hondemaydens I schal ȝote oute of my spiritte in þoo dais. Ibid., 33. He has ȝotted downe þis, þat ȝhe see ande here. Ibid., x. 45. For in nacyons þo grace was ȝotted oute of þo Holygoste.
1878. [see 2].
2. To pour liquid upon; to soak.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., XIX. 760. My Fowles,… I … found feeding at their Trough, Their yoted wheate.
1787. Grose, Prov. Gloss., s.v. The brewer’s grains must be well yoted, or whesed for the pigs.
1878. N. & Q., 5th Ser. IX. 328. Workmen are said to ‘yote in’ metal to fix iron clamps or railings. The word ‘yote’ also signifies to water, to pour water on.
3. a. To cast in metal.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), VII. 27. Þis Gerebertus … dede ȝote [MS. β ȝeote] an hede þat spak nouȝt but whanne me axede of hym.
b. To fasten in (a metal bar, a stone block, etc.) with lead; to ‘lead in.’
1535. MS. Rawl. D., 777, lf. 85. Youtyng the hookes of the Kechyn Dores in to the stone Walles.
1572. in Swayne, Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896), 287. White for his labore for the yoting of them 6d.
1692. Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 111. [Selden’s] grave was nine foot deep at least, the bottom pav’d with bricks and walled about two foot high, with grey marble coarsly polished, each piece being yoated (that is fastned with lead molted in) with iron champs.
1850. N. & Q., 1st Ser. II. 89/2. Yote or Yeot, a term used in Gloucestershire and Somersetshire for ‘leading in’ iron work to stone.
Hence Yoting vbl. sb. (attrib.); also † Yoter, a caster of metal.
1479–80. in Swayne, Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896), 367. Castyng 3 C lede to ye *yoters 2s.
1543. Will of Ric. Elyot (Somerset Ho.). *Yowtyng faate.
1534. in Weaver, Wells Wills (1890), 176. Iohn labur a *ȝottingston.
1597. in Phillipps, Wills (c. 1830), 40. I give and bequeath to my son … one yeoting stone.
1602. Will of Albyn (Somerset Ho.). Yowting stone.
1652. Will of Mr. Reeve (Somerset Ho.). The yeoting stone, the mowstadells.
1592–3. Will of B. Saunders (Somerset Ho.). One broache and my plumpe and *yottinge vate and garnett.
1602. Inv., in Collect. Archæol. (1863), II. 111. In the well yarde. One yotinge vate and frame xxs.
c. 1530. in Weaver, Wells Wills (1890), 176, margin. One *yotinge vault in the house at Tolland.
1511. in Somerset Med. Wills (1903), 151. A *yoting wessaile of lede.
