dite

verb, noun — 2 senses

dite

verb

/daɪt/

Etymology See dight.

1

Obsolete To prepare for use or action; to make ready.

His hideous club aloft he dites.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

dite

noun

Etymology Variant of doit.

1

Maine, US A trifling quantity or amount.

A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.
Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”2019, John Gould, This Trifling Distinction: Reminiscences from Down East, Down East Books, →ISBN, page 95:

1 more example

“Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”1993, Ralph Moody, The Fields of Home, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 80:

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