Definitions
An ant, especially in dialect or older usage.
Word origin
From Middle English emete, from Old English ǣmete, (bef. 12c) Doublet of ant.
Used in a sentence
“He told him that he saw a vast multitude and a promiscuous, their habitations like molehills, the men as emmets […]”
“1666, Dr. Edmund King, Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678) Observations Concerning Emmets or Ants, Their Eggs, Production, Progress, Coming to Maturity, Use, &c”
“What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise? An Emmet match an Emperor in might?”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Ant, dialectally”5 letters
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