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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A port or haven. The word is obsolete except as used in the names of a few English places, as Hythe, Rotherhithe, Queenhithe, Lambeth (Anglo-Saxon Lambehīth, Lambhīth).

Wiktionary

  1. n. obsolete a landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A port or small haven; -- used in composition.

Etymologies

  1. Old English hȳþ. (Wiktionary)

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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

  • “Don't want you looking hithe r and yon scratching things about. ”

    A Rock in the Baltic

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