In old English law. A contrivance or structure for draining waters out of the land into the sea. Callls describes goats as “usual engines erected and built with portcullises and doors of timber and stone or brick. Invented first in Lower Germany.” Cailis, Sewers. (9L) 112, 113.. Cowell defines “gote,” a ditch, sewer, or gutter.
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