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Definition of Pight
1. imp. & p. p. Pitched; fixed; determined.
Definition of Pight
1. Verb. (obsolete) (past of pitch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pight
1. to pitch (eg a tent) [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pight
Literary usage of Pight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"With cloth of arras pight to the ground, A hundred knights, truly told, Your
disease to drive away ; Shall play with bowls in alleys cold, To a drawbridge ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and to the ground there pight. POEMS IMPUTED TO CHAUCER. Whan deed and bloody
in her lappe lay She cried out and said, now wel away, His blessed body, ..."
3. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... In hallowed plot, ringed round, of great pight stones; To choose, among them,
one, by sacred lot, To captain their great warfare, from the North. ..."
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