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smitt

smitt noun: fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep.

Noun

smitt

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

Proper noun capitalized: Smitt

Smitt (plural Smitts)

  1. A surname from Swedish.

Forms of smitt

Noun
alternative formsmit
Proper noun
pluralSmitts

Origin of smitt

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

Words that rhyme with smitt

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Questions about smitt

What does smitt mean?
Smitt means fine clay or ochre made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
What part of speech is smitt?
Smitt can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near smitt in the dictionary

  1. smiting hip and thigh
  2. smitings
  3. Smitley
  4. Smitleys
  5. smits
  6. smitt
  7. smitted
  8. smitten
  9. smitten hip and thigh
  10. smitten kitten
  11. smitten kittens

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