smoot

English

Etymology 1

Height of Oliver R. Smoot, who lay on the Harvard Bridge to measure it as an MIT fraternity prank.

Pronunciation

enPR: smo͞ot
IPA^(key): /smuːt/

Noun

smoot (plural smoots)

(chiefly Greater Boston) A unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches (approximately 1.70 meters).

Etymology 2

From Old Norse smátta

Noun

smoot (plural smoots)

(Britain) A small opening built into a dry-stone wall to allow sheep (and hares) to pass through.

Anagrams

MOTOS, Tooms, moots, motos, stoom, tomos, tooms

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