What does dite mean?
Dite means (obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready..
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/daɪt/ · verb
(obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready..
His hideous club aloft he dites.
A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.
Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”
“Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”
Use dite when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dite means (obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His hideous club aloft he dites.
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