▪ I. pight
arch. pa. tense and pa. pple. of pitch v.1: see also pitched ppl. a.1
▪ II. pight, v.
(paɪt)
[The pa. tense and pa. pple. of pitch v.1 erroneously used as a present tense.]
trans. To pitch.
| [1459 Rolls of Parlt. V. 348/2 It was nyghe evynne or ye..raungede youre Batailles, pightede youre tentes.] 1586 Warner Alb. Eng. ii. vii. (1589) 23 And hauing in their sight The threatned Citie of the Foe, his Tents did Affer pight. 1594 2nd Rep. Doctor Faustus in Thoms E.E. Prose Rom. (1858) III. 348 Two most beautiful places to pight tapers on. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 48 There doth he pight his net and pitch his snare. 1867 ― tr. Virgil's æneid 325 Behold the pighted foe and battle-field. |