Associations to the word «Smoot»

Wiktionary

SMOOT, noun. (chiefly Greater Boston) A unit of length defined as exactly sixty-seven inches (approximately 1.70 meters).
SMOOT, noun. (British) A small opening built into a dry-stone wall as a bolthole allowing a person to cross the wall while impeding the livestock.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne