kite
noun
[ kʌɪt ]
• a toy consisting of a light frame with thin material stretched over it, flown in the wind at the end of a long string.
• a medium to large long-winged bird of prey which typically has a forked tail and frequently soars on updraughts of air.
• a fraudulent cheque, bill, or receipt.
• a quadrilateral figure having two pairs of equal adjacent sides, symmetrical only about one diagonal.
kite
verb
• fly a kite.
• "while I kited, she would always watch out for me"
• write or use (a cheque, bill, or receipt) fraudulently.
Origin:
Old English cȳta (in kite (sense 2 of the noun)); probably of imitative origin and related to German Kauz ‘screech owl’. The toy was so named because it hovers in the air like the bird.
