Eat, v. i. 1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. ix. 13.
2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
3. To make one's way slowly.
To eat, To eat inorinto, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. “A sword laid by, which eats into itself.” Byron. — To eat to windward(Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; — said of a vessel.