Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A port or haven.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A port or small haven; -- used in composition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete a landing-place in a river; a
harbour or smallport
Etymologies
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Old English hȳþ.
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Examples
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My frinds supurb mansion is _My friend's_ superb mansion is delightfully sitewated on a nate-eral delightfully _situated_ on a mound of considerable hithe.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Samuel Kirkham
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Don't want you looking hithe r and yon scratching things about. "
A Rock in the Baltic Barr, Robert, 1850-1912 1906
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