Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A dialectal form of wet.
  • noun The peetweet, or common sandpiper. See Tringoides.
  • A dialectal form of wight.
  • To cry as a weet or peetweet.
  • noun An obsolete or dialectal form of wit.
  • An obsolete form of wit.

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

  • intransitive verb obsolete To know; to wit.
  • obsolete Wet.

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  • verb archaic To know.

Etymologies

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Representing a Middle English variant of wit (verb).

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