queet1 (kwet)

coot, Fulica atra. queet2 (kwēt), n. origin obscure.] [Also quit , cuit, cute, coot; An ankle. [Scotch.] The first an' step that she stepp'd in, She stepped to the quect . The Drowned Lovers (Child's Ballads, II. 179). The second brother he stepped in, He stepped to the quit ; Then out he jump'd upo' the bank, Says, "This water's wond'rous deep." Bondsey and Maisry (Child's Ballads, II. 379).