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third-person singular simple present dites, present participle diting, simple past and past participle dited
(obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready. quotations
His hideous club aloft he dites.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 18
plural dites
(US, Maine) A trifling quantity or amount. quotations examples
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!”
2019, John Gould, This Trifling Distinction: Reminiscences from Down East, Down East Books, page 95
“Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”
1993, Ralph Moody, The Fields of Home, U of Nebraska Press, page 80