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Mitta vs Mitty - What's the difference?

mitta | mitty |

As nouns the difference between mitta and mitty

is that mitta is an old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels. Also mett while mitty is the stormy petrel.

mitta

English

Noun

  • an old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels. Also mett.
  • * 1866 : Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168.
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    mitty

    English

    Noun

    (mitties)
  • (UK, dialect) The stormy petrel.
    • (Webster 1913)