peeth

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noun

A well (for drawing water).

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounpeeth (plural peeths)

plural peeths

  1. CornwallA well (for drawing water).

    […] the hook-handle on another broad stone with the peeth between, only half-covered weth a few loose, broken pieces of old bal tember.

    1880, William Bottrell, Stories and Folk-lore of West Cornwall, page 61
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