(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:10:41

Skit"ty (?), n. [Cf. Skittish.] Zool.

A rail; as, the water rail (called also skitty cock, and skitty coot); the spotted crake (Porzana maruetta), and the moor hen.

[Prov. Eng.]

 

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