verb
- past tense and past participle of let (archaic or dialectal form)
Usage: archaic; dialectal
Examples
- In old texts, one might find ‘he letted the prisoner go free.’
- The archaic form ‘letted’ appears in some historical documents.
- Modern English uses ‘let’ for both present and past tense.
- Shakespeare occasionally used ‘letted’ in his works.
- The King James Bible contains instances of ‘letted’ meaning hindered.