gotert

An obsolete form of gutter1. Chaucer. Goth (goth), n. [= D. Goth = G. Gothe = Sw. Göter = Dan. Goter = F. Goth = Sp. Pg. Godo = It. Goto, Shak., As you Like it, iii. 3. Shall he [the gladiator] expire, And unavenged? Arise! ye Goths , and glut your ire! Byron, Childe Harold, iv. 141. 2. One who is rude or uncivilized; a barbarian; a rude, ignorant person; one defective in taste: from the character of the Goths during their early irruptions into Roman territory. I look upon these writers as Goths in poetry. Add is on, Spectator, No. 62. What do you think of the late extraordinary event in Spain? Could you have ever imagined that those ignorant Goths would have dared to banish the Jesuits! Chesterfield. [ Gotham in