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Eliot’s first play about small island
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eyot
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British English) A little island, especially in a river or lake.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eyot \Ey"ot\ ([imac]"[o^]t or [=a]t), n. [Ey (AS. [=i]g or Icel. ey) + F. dim. termination -ot; cf. AS. [=i]geo[eth]. See Island , and cf. Ait .] A little island in a river or lake. See Ait . [Written also ait , ayt , ey , eyet , and eyght .] --Blackstone. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small island," from Middle English eyt , from Old English iggað "small island," diminutive of eg , ig , ieg "island" (see island ). Ending influenced by French diminutive suffix -ot .
Usage examples of eyot.
There also the water widened out before them, and there were eyots in it with stony shores crowned with willow or with alder, and aspens rising from the midst of them.
Forgot his dawns and far-flushed afterglows, His green garlands and windy eyots forgot, The old Father-River flows, His watchfires cores of menace in the gloom, As he came oozing from the Pit, and bore, Sunk in his filthily transfigured sides, Shoals of dishonoured dead to tumble and rot In the squalor of the universal shore: His voices sounding through the gruesome air As from the Ferry where the Boat of Doom With her blaspheming cargo reels and rides: The while his children, the brave ships, No more adventurous and fair, Nor tripping it light of heel as home-bound brides, But infamously enchanted, Huddle together in the foul eclipse, Or feel their course by inches desperately, As through a tangle of alleys murder-haunted, From sinister reach to reach out--out--to sea.