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Peat vs Jeat - What's the difference?

peat | jeat |

As a proper noun peat

is .

As a noun jeat is

.

peat

English

Etymology 1

Origin unknown; perhaps a borrowing from an unattested Pictish or Brythonic source.

Noun

  • Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas.
    • Derived terms
    * peaty
    See also
    * (wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    Compare .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
  • * 1594 , , I. i. 78 :
    • And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, / For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl. / A pretty peat !

    Anagrams

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    jeat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * , A Funeral Elegy'', 1810, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers (editors), ''The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , Volume 5, page 179,
    • 'T is loss to trust a tomb with such a guest, / Or to confine her in a marble chest, / Alas! what's marble, jeat , or porphyry,
  • * 1735 , John Barrow, Dictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Dige?ted , unnumbered page,
    • There is also a factitious jeat' made of gla?s, in imitation of the mineral ' jeat .
  • * 1758 , Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review , Volume 28, page 10,
  • *:: To make a Grey Colour.
    • Take iron ?cales, a little cri?tal, and ?ome ?mall quantity of jeat', grind the?e well together upon a painter's ?tone; the more ' jeat ye take, the ?adder the colour will be, and likewi?e the more cri?tal you put to it the lighter.