1 BEIT
1. n.
2 BEIT
I. pasturage, Grág. ii. 224, 263, 286; á beit, grazing: [in England the rector of a parish is said to have ‘the bite’ of the churchyard.]
3 BEIT
COMPDS: beitarland, beitarmaðr, beitartollr.
4 BEIT
II. poët. a ship, Lex. Poët.
5 BEIT
2. f. a plate of metal mounted on the brim, e. g. of a drinking horn, the carved metal plate on an old-fashioned saddle, Fms. iii. 190; skálir með gyltum beitum, B. K. 84, Bs. ii. 244; cp. Caes. Bell. Gall. 6. 28 (Germani urorum cornua) a labris argento circumcludunt.