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geteia

geteia, ~um [AN getee < jactata, p. ppl. ofjactare] 1 jetty, projecting storey of building. 13‥ de venellis, appenticiis, gutteris, gettis MGL I 252 (cf. ib. 288: des ‥ appentices, getteres, gettees des mesouns); 1441 cum alta camera supra ‥ portam continente in longitudine cum uno gitteo ibidem edificando inter boriam et austrum xxvij pedes assise DC S. Paul. p. 12b. 2 jetty, breakwater. c1287 lastum mariscorum de Romen’: ‥ de quodam situ nove wall’ apud Holewest, ubi quondam fuit geteya MS BL Cotton Cleopatra C vii f. 38 (= Cant. Cath. Pri. 169); 1427 cum ‥ kaiam sive jetteam de petris ‥ inchoaverit per quam ‥ portus conveniens ‥ ibidem [Mount’s Bay, Cornw] fieret Pat 422 m. 22.

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