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Yore vs Yote - What's the difference?

yore | yote |

As a noun yore

is time long past.

As an adverb yore

is in time long past; long ago.

As a verb yote is

to pour water on; pour in.

yore

English

Noun

(-)
  • (poetic) time long past
    • This word comes from the days of yore .

    Usage notes

    A ; not used outside the phrase (of yore), especially the idiom days of yore.

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (obsolete) In time long past; long ago.
  • * Spenser
    • Which though he hath polluted oft and yore , / Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.

    Anagrams

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    yote

    English

    Verb

  • To pour water on; pour in.
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) To steep.
    • My fowls, which well enough / I, as before, found feeding at their trough / Their yoted wheat. — Chapman.