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Goat, Gote

Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1910)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callis describes goats as "usual engines erected and bullt with portcullises and doors of timber and stone or brick, invented first in Lower Germany." Callis, Sewers, (91,) 112, 113. Cowell defines "gote," a ditch, sewer or gutter.