Ait
Pronunciation
- IPA: /eɪt/
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
ait
(plural aits)- 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.
- (Scotland) An oat.