yett

plural yetts

1. GeordieScotlandGate.

   They rode into the outer courtyard, through the muckle faulding yetts and aneath the auld portcullis; […]

   1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet

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   The outer yett was closed, and a torch burned in a socket set in the gatehouse wall beside the archway. A guard stepped up, peered through the yett at Guillaume, and nodded to someone off to the side.

   2015, Douglas Nicholas, Throne of Darkness, page 126

2. A gate made of iron bars, used for defensive purposes in castles and other buildings, which is hinged to open like a door, rather than being raised and lowered like a portcullis.

   ... yett was solid . At Doune, Perthshire, dating from the latter years of the fourteenth century, the main gateway was defended by a portcullis and a yett at the entrance, and, apparently, by another yett, […]

   2013 April 9, Sidney Toy, Castles: Their Construction and History, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 201

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   [A] yett was in use along with the portcullis. At Doune we have an example of an existing yett, set about a foot behind the portcullis grooves; of course, it is impossible to say whether the two were contemporary, but it seems[…]

   1888, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 318

1. not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of yet.

   So when the L. Chauncellor or Keeper passeth anie patent by imediate warrant, yett the fees of the Clerke of the Seale and Signett are ordered to be awnswered, and yett theie doe noething for them.

   1608, “Kalenders of the Starre Chamber, extract republished 1840, J. Payne Collier (editor), Lord Bacon and the Star Chamber”, in The Egerton papers: A collection of public and private documents, chiefly illustrative of the times of Elizabeth and James I, from the original documents, page 431