Definition of "yate"

Syn he of helthe hath opned me the yate

c. 1420, Thomas Hoccleve, Dialogue

For thy my Kiddie, be ruled by me, And never give trust to his trechery: And if he chance come when I am abroad, Spar the yate fast, for fear of fraud.

1579, Edmund Spenser, “May”, in The Shepheardes Calender; republished as The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser, London: Henry Hills, 1679, page 21

He's left th' yate at t' full swing, and Miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs o' corn , and plottered through, raight o'er into t' meadow!

1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, London: Smith, Elder & Co., published 1870, page 69