kites

1. a toy consisting of a light frame with thin material stretched over it, flown in the wind at the end of a long string.
2. a medium to large long-winged bird of prey which typically has a forked tail and frequently soars on updraughts of air.
3. a fraudulent cheque, bill, or receipt.
4. a quadrilateral figure having two pairs of equal adjacent sides, symmetrical only about one diagonal.

1. fly a kite.

   while I kited, she would always watch out for me

2. write or use (a cheque, bill, or receipt) fraudulently.

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.