- þot
- n. rush; in phrase, sitja (standa) í þot við e-n, to sit (stand) ready to make (? or meet) an attack.* * *n. [þjóta], a rush; upp-þot, a great uprising, a great stir; sitja í þot (better þrot = þraut) við e-n, Fas. iii. 177.
An Icelandic-English dictionary. Richard Cleasby and Gudbrand Vigfusson. 1874.