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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See hithe.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A small haven. See hithe.

Etymologies

  1. Old English hȳþ. (Wiktionary)

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

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

    The Lord of the Rings

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

    The Lord of the Rings

  • “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

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

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

  • “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

  • “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

  • “Came riding out of Hither-hythe, and his horse-hoofs (you will remember) trampled into the press and made”

    Hills and the Sea

  • “I rushed through the marketplace where all was silent and deserted; I ran on to the wharves beyond and they were empty save for the litter and embers of the fires Ar-hap's men had made during their stay; I dashed out to the landing-place, and there at the hythe the last boat-loads of the villains were just embarking, two boatloads of them twenty yards from shore, and another still upon the beach.”

    Gulliver of Mars

  • “The 5th canon of the Council of Ceale-hythe requires”

    The God-Idea of the Ancients

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