Crossword clues for shet
shet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shet \Shet\, v. t. & i. [imp. Shet. (Obs. Shette (? or ?));
p. pr. Shet; p. pr. & vb. n. Shetting.]
To shut. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1837 representing U.S. colloquial pronunciation of shut.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context archaic English) shed 2 (context archaic English) sheet vb. (eye dialect of shut English)
Wikipedia
Shet may refer to:
- Shet (Kazakh: Шет ауданы) is a district of Karagandy Province in central Kazakhstan.
- Shet is a title used by some communities originating on western coast of India
Usage examples of "shet".
Beany went over to his house and set on the steps til his folks went in and shet the door and then we set on the fence under the gas lite and we herd Nat Weeks come home and mister Gewell and bimeby Si Smith shet up his store and then it begun to be loansum.
George and looked at him, and he shet up and turned red and then Mister Robinson began to pray and all of us kept still but Georgie who began to gigle, and mother looked scowly at her and she shet up two.
Hobbs opened the door quick and gumped out and grabed the man and said you rascul i have got you and the man said you old fool are you crasy and then old Hobbs he said i thougt it was that Purinton boy ringing my door bell and then the man went in the house and we wated til they had shet the door and we put for home and made sum sweet firn segars.
This made me mad so I got the lariat and the saddle and clumb back on the wall and roped him, but he jerked the rope out of my hand before I could get any kind of a purchase, and went bucking and pitching around all over the bowl trying to get shet of the rope.
I have noticed that the average man is funny that way, and hates to be shet up in a cabin with a mad cougar as bad as the cougar would hate to be shet up in a cabin with a infuriated settler of Bear Creek.
Pembroke by the neck and the seat of the britches and throwed him bodily into the cabin, and shet the door and sot down on the stoop.
You may shet up your doors and winders, and set with a veil on and an umbrell up - but good land!
Not sad tears, not happy ones, but tears that come only to them that shet their eyes and behold the country, and love it.
Keene said i slaped her face yesterday and Cele told Keene it was her falt and she hadent aught to have plaged me, and Keene said she dident and Cele said she did and father said you girls shet up when your mother is talking.
Beany set down two and bimeby the folks said they must go in and they all went in and shet the door.
George what are you going to do with the boy, drownd him, and father he said no but i wood if he dident amount to more then you have, and then that man he shet up and a nother man he holered George have you saved enny more peeple and father he said no i had a chanse to but his name was Mudge and i let them hang him, and then that man he shet up.
But Joshua said not even four American hunters could lick a hundred Sioux, and he furthermore said shet up and let him think.
When I got there the stillhouse was dark and the door was shet, and they was a note on the door.
You may shet up your doors and winders, and set with a veil on and an umbrell up - but good land!
People begun to fall off - mills an' shops shet daown shippin' stopped an' the harbour choked up - railrud give up - but they .