bitt

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  1. noun A vertical post, usually one of a pair, set on the deck of a ship and used to secure ropes or cables.
  2. transitive verb To wind (a cable) around a bitt.

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  • The plague encreases mightily, I this day seeing a house, at a bitt-maker's over against St. Clement's Church, in the open street shut up; which is a sad sight 28th. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
  • This man was the one who had been watching from behind the dock bitt, and he was trailing the giant of bronze. —  021 - The Sea Magician
  • July 17th, 2008 at 6: 33 am i'm in ff3 on a pc and it looks fine to me … must be mac ff3 users who are experiencing trouble? anyway, i like a cleaner look, personally … grungy sites are great for personal use, but i think the more professional sites look better without it. (however, i wouldn't be against seeing a 'bitt' more personalization here …) —  BittBox
  • As to the redesig, you have to go with your soul, bitt, and if it is saying tidy and no clutter, then so it is. —  BittBox
  • Thanks for sharing this with us bitt, quality as always. —  BittBox
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  1. Perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin; akin to Old Norse biti, crossbeam.

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  1. Formerly, and still occasionally, written bit, but usually in plural bitts, bits, early modern English beetes; hence F. bittes, formerly bites, plural, = Spanish bitas, plural, = Portuguese abitas, plural, = Italian bitte, plural, bitts. Origin uncertain; connected in sense, and, in the early modern English spelling beetes, in form, with Swedish beting = Danish beding, a bitt, bitts, later D. beting = German bäting, a bitt; with compounds, Swedish beting-bult = Danish bedingsbolt, a bitt-bolt; Dutch beting-houten, plural, = German bätinghölzer, plural, bitts (Dutch hout = German holz, wood), Swedish beting, = Danish beding, means literally ‘baiting, pasturing,’ as a horse, by tethering it (= Anglo-Saxon bǣting, bēting, a rope, a cable), from Swedish beta = Danish bede = Icelandic beita, bait, pasture, = Anglo-Saxon bǣtan, bridle, rein in, curb, orig. causal of Swedish bita = Danish bide = Icelandic bita = Anglo-Saxon bītan, bite: see bait, bite, bit. The Middle Latin bitus, a whipping-post, and Icelandic biti, a crossbeam in a house, a thwart in a boat, are, for different reasons, prob. neither of them the source of the English word.
  2. from bitt, n.
 

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