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Definition of 'douit'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(Guernsey) A stream or brook.
* 1965 , (John Christopher), A Wrinkle in the Skin :
- He crossed the douit and forced his way into the thicket.
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 129:
- He said, ‘Didn't you know that every douit and every hedge and every inch and square inch of land on Guernsey is weighed and measured, and has been for centuries?’
* 1989 , (Stephen Birnbaum), Birnbaum's Great Britain 1990 :
- Visitors can stroll down to the beach along wooded paths beside streams known as "douits ."
* 2011 , ‘Blondel turns on the style’, The Guernsey Press , 20 May 2011:
- The pair were virtually inseparable over the front nine until Eggo’s second shot on the ninth dived into the douit short of the green not to be seen again.
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