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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bitt.

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Examples

  • And for a month she had been in the company of a man -- Stephen Knight, athlete, surf-board rider, a bronzed god of the sea who bitted the crashing breakers, leaped upon their backs, and rode them in to shore.

    ALOHA OE 2010

  • There was no withstanding Daylight when he vaulted on the back of life, and rode it bitted and spurred.

    Chapter VI 2010

  • When I was trail crew boss and fire crew squad boss, I always carried a double-bitted axe.

    Axe? 2010

  • When I was trail crew boss and fire crew squad boss, I always carried a double-bitted axe.

    Axe? 2010

  • Dick pointed out her horse, an alert bay thoroughbred, stallion at that, under a small Australian saddle with steel stirrups, and double-reined and single-bitted.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • I was a man, a god, and the very elements rendered me allegiance as I bitted them to my will.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • He has ` ` bitted the bull-mouthed breaker '' and ridden it in, and the pride in the feat shows in the carriage of his magnificent body as he glances for a moment carelessly at you who sit in the shade of the shore.

    Excerpt From Cruise of the Snark: Surfing in Hawaii 2010

  • And I can't count the number of times I've had people recall some they know or themselves being bitted by a German Shepherd Dog, a breed rarely on a BSL list.

    Pam Spaulding: Thought Provoking Surprises in Breed-Specific Legislation 2010

  • Better than a dozen of these 19th-century speed machines, presumably un-doped, are then released to blast wide-eyed around the mile-and-quarter track, kicking up a rooster tail of dirt and dust as froth spews from their bitted jaws and their jockey's goggles become pasted with crud.

    Matthew DeBord: The Kentucky Derby: The Most Surreal and Seedy Spectacle in All of Sports 2009

  • Theban blood; with no wild waving of the thyrsus, clad in fawnskin thou dancest, but with chariots and bitted steeds wheelest thy charger strong of hoof.

    The Phoenissae 2008

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