fortnite

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fortnite (plural fortnites)

  1. Obsolete form of fortnight.
    • 1771, [Tobias Smollett], The Expedition of Humphry Clinker , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: W. Johnston, ; and B. Collins, , →OCLC:
      We are all together in the same house, and all parties have agreed to the match, and in a fortnite the surrymony will be performed.
    • 1772 October 2, Oscar Jewell Harvey, editor, The Town Book of Wilkes Barre, quoted in A History of Wilkes-Barré, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, published 1909, page 750:
      Voted, by this company, to continue their meetings once a fortnite on mondays at two of ye clock in ye afternoon.
    • 1953 August, The Rotarian, volume 83, number 2, page 51:
      Within a fortnite several others followed suit.
    • 1972, Report of Proceedings, volume 68, American Wood-Preservers' Association, page 28:
      I think the blocks were saturated and held at 50° C and the water was changed every day for a fortnite or something like that.