Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See hithe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A small haven. See hithe.

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  • noun obsolete a landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port

Etymologies

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Old English hȳþ.

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Examples

  • The tall son of the Seven Winds Came riding out of Hither-hythe, and his horse-hoofs (you will remember) trampled into the press and made a gap in it, and his sword (as you know)

    The Mowing of a Field 2008

  • The Swan passed on slowly to the hythe, and they turned their boats and followed it.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • Now the Lady arose, and Celeborn led them back to the hythe.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood.

    The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

  • The Swan passed on slowly to the hythe, and they turned their boats and followed it.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • Now the Lady arose, and Celeborn led them back to the hythe.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • With stem all be-ringed at the hythe stood the ship,

    The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

  • Came riding out of Hither-hythe, and his horse-hoofs (you will remember) trampled into the press and made a gap in it, and his sword (as you know) was like scythe

    The Mowing of a Field 1921

  • August ---- Downing wyfe to ---- Downinge gravemaker of this paryshe she was sett on a new cukking stolle made of a grett hythe and so browght a bowte the markett place to Temes brydge and ther had iij

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

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