Dite

His hideous club aloft he dites.

A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.

Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”

“Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”