Definition of "airt" []

• Scots A cardinal point on the compass. (noun)

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• "Then he looked into the west "airt," and he thought he saw thereabouts a ring of fiery hue, and within the ring a man on a grey horse."
• "But yon divine has another airt from powerful Master Rollock, and Mess David Black, of North Leith, and sic like. —"
• "'Look' ee 'ere, Miss Zusie, this vowl' ave airt her vut; 'and the small ploughboy I before mentioned came in at the garden gate, holding a hen in his arms."