[app. ad. Ger. dial. kitte, kütte, covey, flight of doves, etc.: see Grimm 2895/1.] A school of pigeons.

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1880.  Times, 24 Nov., 10/3. Mr. Cotton’s handsome birds from Sunningdale, and the Macclesfield tipplers [pigeons], which fly in schools or ‘kits’ for hours against another school.

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