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bitt
[ bit ]
noun
- Also called bollard. a strong post of wood or iron projecting, usually in pairs, above the deck of a ship, used for securing cables, lines for towing, etc.
verb (used with object)
- to wrap (a cable) around a bitt to secure it.
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Example Sentences
Finally a very small bird, tsina bitt kaiya patsrk, succeeded in carrying the bear.
From there they crawled forward over the raised deck, slipping the line, at last, between the two raised ends of the towing bitt.
But now young Halstead soon had a stout hitch about the towing bitt at the bow.
And that iryn bitt in mouth betakenis, that he suld refrenȝe his mouth fra bathe euill viciouse speche and euill thouchtis.
Mr. Duncan, who had come aboard just before we left the dock, was trying to sit on the weather bitt near the wheel-box.
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