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noun: A small island, especially in a river. Also, eyot.

[Middle English eit, from Old English igeth, diminutive of ig, ieg, island.]

"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows."
Charles Dickens; Bleak House; 1853.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. -Josh Billings, columnist and humorist (1818-1885)

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