Definitions for bitt

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Spelling: [bit]
IPA: /bɪt/

Bitt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in bitt (bitt).

Definitions for bitt

noun

  1. 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)

  1. to wrap (a cable) around a bitt to secure it.

Origin of bitt

Middle English, perhaps Dutch or Low German; compare Dutch, Low German beting, in same sense, akin to Middle High German bizze wooden peg, Old Norse biti crossbeam

Examples for bitt

Keep one turn round the bitt, and heave in on it when the painter slacks.

A small silver coin of the West Indies, six of which make a bitt.

Bite is a turn of a cable, and the bitter end is that part of the cable which is wound round the bitt.

The bitt for the bowsprit to be stepped in runs through the deck and into the keelson.

He untied the vinta line from the anchor rope and temporarily hitched it to a bitt while he hauled in the anchor.

On a bight of this rope, between the block and the bitt, the accumulator was lashed.

The blade or bitt is about eight inches in length, the cutting edge four and seven-eighths to five inches in width.

bitt′ers, a liquid prepared from bitter herbs or roots, and used as a stomachic.

The hawser had but just been loosened from the bitt when the drag of the waters began.

A serpentine hawser slipped from its bitt on the wharf and splashed writhing into the water at our feet—we were sailing.

Word Value for bitt
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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