Definitions
Etymologies
- 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 Swan passed on slowly to the hythe, and they turned their boats and followed it.”
“Now the Lady arose, and Celeborn led them back to the hythe.”
“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.”
“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”
“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”
“Came riding out of Hither-hythe, and his horse-hoofs (you will remember) trampled into the press and made”
“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.”
“The 5th canon of the Council of Ceale-hythe requires”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hythe’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Intriguing places
penge, towcester, ruritania, jaffa, tikal, munster, irkutsk, whitby, ephesus, yap, kerguelen, tashkent and 151 more...
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Middle Earth
Words found in Tolkien but rarely elsewhere.
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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