jeast

noun

1. (archaic)jest

   “Plume adds, "Sir John Mennes saw once his old father in his shop--a merry cheeked old man that said, 'Will was a good honest fellow, but he darest have crackt a jeast with him at any time.'"”

   “And after, at a feast, Which he the king did make, He burnt the bonds all in jeast, And would no money take.”