Obs. Forms: 4–5 gett, get, (4 aget), 4–6 gette; 4–5 iett(e, 4–6 iet. [app. a substitution of jet = F. jet throw, cast, for certain senses of CAST sb. This sense of jet may prob. have been in Anglo-Fr.; but is not recorded in Godefroy, his nearest sense being that of ‘proposal, project,’ illustrated chiefly from Flanders.]
1. A device, a contrivance; = CAST sb. 24.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1354. In notyng of nwe metes & of nice gettes, Al watz þe mynde of þat man, on misschapen þinges.
c. 1380. Sir Ferumb., 1681. Al of marbre y-mad ys sche wyþ a quynte iet.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Can. Yeom. Prol. & T., 724. With this stikke aboue the Crosselet That was ordeyned with that false Iet [v.rr. gett(e] He stired the coles.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 191/2. Get, or gyn (K. gett, or gyle, S. gette, or gyty), machina.
2. Fashion, style, mode, manner. Cf. CAST sb. 25. Phr. Of the new jet, of the best jet, etc.: cf. after the newest cast.
c. 1325. Poem Times Edw. II., 118, in Pol. Songs (Camden), 329. He adihteth him a gay wenche of the new jet, sanz doute.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 4024. After Sysilly com Glegabret, A syngere of the beste get.
c. 1386. Chaucer, C. T., Prol. 682. Hym thoughte he rood al of the newe Iet.
1399. Langl., Rich. Redeles, III. 159. Þe leesinge so likyde ladies and oþer That þey Ioied of þe Iette, and gyside hem þer-vnder.
a. 1420. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 449. There is another newe gette, A foule waste of clothe and excessyfe.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 191/2. Get, or maner of custome, modus, consuetudo.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1868), 31. Now a dayes and a woman here of a newe gette, she wille neuer be in pees tille she haue the same.
1526. Skelton, Magnyf., 458. What? would ye, wyves, counterfet, The courtly gyse of the newe iet.
