Ait vs Gait - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between ait and gait

is that ait is place, area while gait is manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

to teach a specific gait to a horse.

(wikipedia ait) (en noun)

An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.

* R. Hodges (1649)

The ait where the osiers grew.

* 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,

Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .

* 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,

Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.

(Scotland) An oat.

(Burns)

* eyot

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(wikipedia gait)

(en noun)

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving.

Carrying a heavy suitcase, he walked with a lopsided gait .

(horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.

(en verb)

To teach a specific gait to a horse.

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