stith

noun, adj — 2 senses

stith

noun

/stɪθ/

Etymology From Middle English stith, from Old Norse steði. Compare stithy.

Obsolete An anvil; a stithy.

strike on the stith while the iron was hot1584, Robert Greene, the Card of Fancy:

stith

adj

Etymology From Middle English stith (“steady, strong, cruel”), from Old English stīþ (“hard, cruel”), from Proto-West Germanic *stinþ, from Proto-Germanic *stinþaz. Compare also Old Frisian stīth, Middle Low German stīde, Middle Dutch stīde, Old Norse stinnr, Danish stind, Swedish stinn.

UK, Dialectal, Obsolete strong; stiff; rigid

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