speet
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English
Etymology
Compare Dutch speten. See spit (“an iron prong”).
Verb
speet (third-person singular simple present speets, present participle speeting, simple past and past participle speeted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To stab.
- Synonyms: foin, yerk; see also Thesaurus:stab
- c. 1553, anonymous author, Gammer Gurton's Needle:
- bad me not sticke to speet hym
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “speet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Pronunciation
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