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One of the main Cinque Ports
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hythe
Word definitions for hythe in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hythe may refer to a landing-place, port or haven, or to: Placenames in Australia Hythe, Tasmania Placenames in Canada Hythe, Alberta (a village in Canada) Placenames in England Hythe, Essex (part of Colchester) Hythe, Hampshire (a village near Southampton) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hythe \Hythe\, n. A small haven. See Hithe . [Obs.]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) a landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port
Usage examples of hythe.
He had nothing for it but to endeavour to be the first to convey the already-blown news to Sir John Peachy, sheriff for Kent: his pains were rewarded by his being detained prisoner as a suspected person, while Sir John mustered his yeomanry, and, together with the neighbouring gentry and their retainers, marched towards Hythe, The wavering people, awed by this show of legal and military power, grew cool towards the White Rose, whose name, linked to change and a diminution of taxation, had for a moment excited their enthusiasm.
The people of Hythe, fishers, or such poor traders as supplied the fishermen with a few coarse necessaries, were rouzed from the usual monotony of their lives by the aspect of this fleet.
I drove by West Sandling camp and through Hythe to take the morning packet back to France a cold raw wind searched my very bones.
He sailed along the shore of his earldom, greeted as a hero, collecting more ships and men in all the harbours, Pevensey, Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Sandwich and Dover itself.
Our Meg Clouder has gone off to Hythe only yesterday and returned married, if you please—married to some captain who lays claim to be a gentleman, but who has returned to take up his married quarters in 'The City of London'.
In the spring of 1973, the new Lieutenant Martin went straight to Hythe to take over a platoon in preparatory training for Northern Ireland, and he commanded the platoon during twelve miserable weeks crouching in an observation post called Flax Mill that covered the ultra-Republican enclave of Ardoyne, Belfast.