hythe

Noun

hythe (plural hythes)

1. (obsolete) A landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port.
   • That morn to other hythe we made our way / finding the peoples that before we found, / by a broad River, and we gave it name / from the high hol'iday when to port we came.1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 202
   • On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood. By it were moored many boats and barges.1954, JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Hythe

UK/haɪð/

Hythe

1. A hamlet in the County of Grande Prairie No. 1, Alberta, Canada, named after Hythe , Kent.
2. A town in Hythe and Dibden parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4207).
3. A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1634).
4. Former name of Southport, Tasmania.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hythe

UK/haɪð/

The Hythe

1. A suburban area in Colchester, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM0124).