smitt

See also: Smitt

English

Alternative forms

• smit

Etymology

Compare German Schmitz (“a stain”), schmitzen (“to besmear”). See smite (transitive verb).

Noun

smitt

1. (UK) Fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
   • 1729, John Woodward, An Attempt Towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England:

     This is the finest of the Clayey-Ore : and, thus made up into Balls, they use this also for marking of Sheep, and call it Smitt.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “smitt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• mitts

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• smit (Tredici Comuni, Sette Comuni)

Etymology

From Old High German smid, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz. Cognate with German Schmied, Dutch smid, English smith.

Noun

smitt m

1. (Luserna) smith

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

smitt

1. imperative of smitte

Swedish

Adjective

smitt

1. indefinite neuter singular of smidd

Verb

smitt

1. supine of smida