schete

schete

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of schijten

• scheet

Inherited from Old English sċīete, from Proto-West Germanic *skautijā, from Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ; reinforced by Old English sċēat, from Proto-West Germanic *skaut, from Proto-Germanic *skautaz.

• schett, shet, shete
• scete (Early Middle English); ssete (Gloucestershire); chitte, sheit (Lincolnshire)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeːt(ə)/, /ˈʃɛ̝ːt(ə)/

schete (plural schetes or scheten)

1. A length of cloth (especially linen):
   1. A linen cloth as clothing (especially a swaddling cloth)
   2. A bedsheet or other bed linen.
   3. (rare) A dishcloth or napkin.
2. (rare) A layer of manure.

• English: sheet
• Middle Scots: schete, scheit
  • Scots: sheet

• “shẹ̄te, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “sheet, n.¹”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Inherited from Old English sċēata, from Proto-West Germanic *skautō, from Proto-Germanic *skautô.

• shete

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛ̝ːt(ə)/, /ˈʃeːt(ə)/

schete (plural schetes)

1. A sheet (rope for adjusting a sail)
2. (rare) A triangle-shaped ship floorboard.

• English: sheet
• Middle Scots: schete, scheit
  • Scots: sheet

• “shēte, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “sheet, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

schete

1. (Late Middle English, Norfolk) alternative form of schot

schete

1. alternative form of scheten

schete

1. (London) alternative form of schitten