gagate

1) A word for jet, on record from the Old English period (OED).

1395-6 Item pro vij anulis Rob. Car de gagate vijd, Whitby Abbey

1436 unum par precularium de corall cum gaudiis de gagate, Whitby

1447 unum par precum longevarum de gegate gaudettum cum curallo, Newton on Derwent

c.1500 Unum par precularium de gagat cum sex de le gaudeys argenti, York.

dates 1395-1396 1436 1447 1500

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