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Webster 1913 Edition

Meritot

Mer′i-tot

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Noun.

A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.

Definition 2024

meritot

meritot

English

Noun

meritot ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete, nonce word) A children's game of swinging on ropes or similar until dizzy.
- Chaucer, The Miller's Tale, L662
  What eylith you, some gay gerl, God it wote / Hath brought in you thus on the meritote.