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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Eat \Eat\, v. i.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in
distinction from liquid, food; to board.
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He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam.
ix. 13.
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2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
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3. To make one's way slowly.
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To eat, To eat in or To eat into, to make way by
corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. ``A sword laid by, which
eats into itself.'' --Byron.
To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when
closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Eat \Eat\, v. i.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in
distinction from liquid, food; to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam.
ix. 13.
2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
3. To make one's way slowly.
To eat, To eat in or into, to make way by corrosion; to
gnaw; to consume. ``A sword laid by, which eats into
itself.'' --Byron.
To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when
closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
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