hythe

• hithe

From Old English hȳþ.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hʌɪð/

hythe (plural hythes)

1. (obsolete) a landing-place in a river; a harbour or small port

   • 1954: On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood. By it were moored many boats and barges. — JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

• “hythe” (US) / “hythe” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.