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hithe, hythe|haɪð|
[OE. hýð fem.:—OTeut. type *hûþjâ-: not found in any of the other Teut. langs.]
A port or haven; esp. a small haven or landing-place on a river. Now obsolete except in historical use, and in place-names, as Hythe, Rotherhithe, Lambeth (orig. Lamb-hithe), Hythe Bridge at Oxford, Bablock Hithe on the Thames above Oxford.
c725Corpus Gloss. 643 Deconfugione, statione, hyðae. a1000Boeth. Metr. xxi. 13 (Gr.) Þæt is sio an hyð. a1000Prose Life St. Guthlac xi. (1848) 54 Comon þær þry men to þære hyðe. c1000Ags. Ps. cvi. 29 [cvii. 30] And he hi on hælo hyþe ᵹelædde. c1440Promp. Parv. 242/1 Hyþe, where bootys ryve to londe, or stonde, stacio. 1538Bale Thre Lawes 1345 In an oyster bote, a little beyonde quene hythe. 1723Banff Burgh Rec. in Cramond Ann. Banff (1893) II. 219 [The shipmasters crave] ane further reparation to be made one Gutherie's Hyth. 1790Pennant London 473 (R.) When the hithe fell into the hands of King Stephen, he bestowed it on William de Ypres. 1853M. Arnold Scholar-Gipsy viii. Crossing the stripling Thames at Bablock-hithe. 1886Willis & Clark Cambridge I. Introd. 11 The different hythes or landing-places along the river-bank. 1897F. W. Maitland Domesday & beyond 189 Hythes outside the walls. |