Obs. Forms: 1 hlýpʓeat, 4 lipȝet, 5 lypȝet(e, -zet, 7 leap-yeat. [f. LEAP sb.1 + GATE sb.1] A low gate in a fence, which can be leaped by deer, while keeping sheep from straying.
980. in Kemble, Cod. Dipl., III. 180/28. Ondlang ʓeardes on ðæt hlypʓeat.
13[?]. Eulog. Hist. (Rolls), III. 224. Fuit ibi una porta quæ vocatur in lingua Anglicana lipȝet [v.rr. 14[?] lypȝete, lypzet].
1609. in S. Rowe, Peramb. Dartmoor (1848), 278. Home to the corne hedges and leape yeates rounde aboute the same Common and fforest.
c. 1630. Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 215 (1810), 223. The correction of the corn, ditches, and leap-yeats, shall be in the court of Lidford.
