skite

Example Sentences

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To go to sea with his feet fast in such a little skite of a craft as that!

From Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)

"Yes, the little skite and the ould sukee, the mawther," said Kisseck.

From She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

There is no need of wiping one's tail, said Gargantua, but when it is foul; foul it cannot be, unless one have been a-skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tails.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

"To eat skite" is to talk or act foolishly.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

And all were sore pressed wanting to pass urine or to skite; so whenever a man entered the place in a hurry he would draw the door to.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir