smite

Definitions

1. A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
   archaic, rare
2. A river in Nottinghamshire, with its headwaters in Leicestershire, England, which joins the River Devon, near Shelton.

Equivalents

Examples

“On the other hand , your soft-headed, softhearted sentimentalist, whose heart is in his waistcoat pocket, always at hand for use⟳, he who picks out the pretty parts of modern novels, and the tender parts of affecting tales, never hears of two young people meeting one another, but he begins to think⟳ that a smite must follow⟳.”

“‘That is just what I was about to venture to propose⟳,’returned the doctor with a smite. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile⟳ was struck out of his face⟳ and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.”

“Beale, who had not been driving very well, took a smite at his ball and sent it curving far away to the left into a mess of gorse of bramble bushes.”

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