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Yeat vs Jeat - What's the difference?

yeat | jeat |

As nouns the difference between yeat and jeat

is that yeat is (dialectal|northern england) , obsolete except in place names while jeat is .

yeat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialectal, Northern England) , obsolete except in place names.

    • See also

    * yett (Geordie & Scottish spelling).

    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.