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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PIGHT

pp. pite. Pitched; fixed; determined.

 

PIGHT

v.t.To pierce.

 

PIGHTEL

n.A little inclosure. [Local. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PIGHT

PIGHT Pight, imp. & p. p. of Pitch, to throw; -- used also adjectively.

 

Defn: Pitched; fixed; determined. [Obs. ] [His horse ] pight him on the pommel of his head. Chaucer. I found him pight to do it. Shak.

 

PIGHTEL

Pigh "tel, n. Etym: [Cf. Pight, Picle.]

 

Defn: A small inclosure. [Written also pightle. ] [Obs. or Prov. Eng. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pightle

pightle |ˈpʌɪt (ə )l | ▶noun dialect a small field or enclosure. ORIGIN Middle English: origin obscure, apparently diminutive.

 

Oxford Dictionary

pightle

pightle |ˈpʌɪt (ə )l | ▶noun dialect a small field or enclosure. ORIGIN Middle English: origin obscure, apparently diminutive.