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verb

Eat v. i. (past ate, obs. or colloq. eat; past part. eaten, obs. or colloq. eat; pres. part. eating)

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."

To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

To make one's way slowly.

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."

To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; said of a vessel.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Eat in" Quotes from Famous Books

... may be a lot of good things to eat in some of these farmhouses," suggested the young corporal. "I ...

— The Khaki Boys Over the Top - Doing and Daring for Uncle Sam • Gordon Bates

... a box filled with a very strong acid," said the colonel. "Probably the box was made of soft metal, through which the acid would eat in a few hours. It was placed in the safe, and in time the corrosive ...

— Jack O' Judgment • Edgar Wallace

... have come from and what for. To-day Alec Ross and Peter Nicholls walked over to the natives' encampment, and reported that most of the men who had been to our camp were sitting there with nothing to eat in the camp; the women being probably out on a hunting excursion, whilst they, as lords of creation, waited quietly at their club till dinner should be announced. They got very little from me, as I had no surplus food to spare. Nicholls ...

— Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles

... pensioners should eat in the kitchen," Frances returned, trying to make a better appearance of friendliness for Nola than she ...

— The Rustler of Wind River • G. W. Ogden

... sleep in, the first need of the home. Not to eat in, the second. Not to shelter young in, the third. Not to cook and wash in, to sew and mend in, to nurse and tend in; not for any of the trades which we ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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