n. An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
n. An oat.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.
n. Oat.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A small island in a river or lake.
Word Usage
"With them, though the term aitía was employed, and even occasionally in several of the senses in which Aristotle later distinguished it, the commoner term was arché, with which the former was apparently generally interchangeable."