verb. (old).—A variant of SCOOT (q.v.); to run, or decamp. As adj. and adv. (old literary) = swift, fleet.
c. 1360. Alliterative Poems [MORRIS], iii. 195. Thenne ascryed thay him SKETE.
c. 1400. Tale of Gamelyn, 185. A steede ther sadeled smertely and SKEET.
c. 1430. The Destruction of Troy [E.E.T.S.], 13434. This Askathes, the skathill, had SKET sones thre.
1848. W. E. BURTON, Waggeries and Vagaries, 16. The critter … SKEETED over the side o’ the ship into the water.
