• Ait

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /eɪt/
    • Rhymes: -eɪt

    Noun

    ait

    (plural aits)
    1. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
      • R. Hodges (1649)The ait where the osiers grew.
      • 1833, Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe, Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits.
      • 1853, Charles_Dickens, Bleak House, ch. 1,Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
    2. (Scotland) An oat.

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