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Ait vs Skerry - What's the difference?

ait | skerry |

As nouns the difference between ait and skerry

is that ait is place, area while skerry is a small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.

ait

English

Noun

(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)

    Synonyms

    * eyot

    Anagrams

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    skerry

    English

    (wikipedia skerry)

    Noun

    (skerries)
  • A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.
  • * 1805 , George Barry, History of the Orkney Islands , I:
    • The Seal (phoca vitulina'', Lin. Syft.) which is here generally known by the name of ''selchy , is very common on most of our low shores, but particularly on those of the small holms and remote skerries , where it is frequently seen reposing and basking in the sun [...].
  • * 1997 , Bernard Scudder, translating ‘Egil's Saga’, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, p. 46:
    • Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries , then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.
  • * 2000 , Jeremy Gaskell, Who Killed the Great Auk? , Oxford 2000, p. 20:
    • The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry , finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches.