smeath local.
(smiːθ)
Also 7 smieth, 7, 9 smethe, 9 smeeth.
[Obscurely related to smee.]
1. The smee. Also smeeth duck.
| 1622 Drayton Poly-olb. xxv. 67 The gossander..With whom the widgeon goes, the golden-eye, the smeath. 1634 Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 17 Two pellstarts, two smeathes, two shovelars. Ibid. 23 Smeathes he keeps in a hut..covered with a net. 1674 J. Josselyn Voy. New Engl. 101 But of Ducks there be many more sorts, as..Puets, Plovers, Smethes, Wilmotes [etc.]. 1893 H. T. Cozens-Hardy Broad Norf. 47 Smee—Widgeon, Smeeth Duck. |
2. U.S. In New Jersey: The pintail duck.
| 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portr. Birds 38 Others refer to it as Smethe. |