Dictionary entry

Ait

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ait (�), n. [AS. �, �, perh. dim. of īeg, īg, island. See Eyot.] An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.

The ait where the osiers grew.

R. Hodges (1649).

Among green aits and meadows.

Dickens.