Definitions for bitting

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bitting bit·ting

Spelling: [bit-ing]

IPA: /ˈbɪt ɪŋ/

Bitting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in bitting (bgiintt).

Definitions for bitting

noun

1. one of the indentations on the bit of a key.
2. Machinery. a removable drilling or boring tool for use in a brace, drill press, or the like. a removable boring head used on certain kinds of drills, as a rock drill. a device for drilling oil wells or the like, consisting of a horizontally rotating blade or an assembly of rotating toothed wheels.
3. the mouthpiece of a bridle, having fittings at each end to which the reins are fastened.
4. anything that curbs or restrains.
5. the blade or iron of a carpenter's plane.
6. the cutting part of an ax or hatchet.
7. the wide portion at the end of an ordinary key that moves the bolt.
8. 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

1. simple past tense and a past participle of bite.

Idioms

1. take the bit in / between one's teeth, to cast off control; willfully go one's own way:

verb (used with object)

1. to put a bit in the mouth of (a horse).
2. to curb or restrain with, or as with, a bit.
3. to grind a bit on (a key).
4. to wrap (a cable) around a bitt to secure it.

Origin of bitting

bit¹ + -ing¹

Examples for bitting

But the bitting exercises, previously described, should be occasionally reverted to as long as the horse is used under the saddle.

Men do not mean to be cruel to horses when bitting them improperly, but they are so neverthelessto a terrible degree.

In his bitting, harnessing, and handling he should be made to do things by patience rather than by force.

Correct bitting gives control in harness without inflicting pain.

I cannot help believing that bitting is generally much too severely carried out.

There should be one established law in bitting: never use any bridle that your horse after a trial will not face.

If the bitting and saddling are right, a touch with the whip given behind the girth will generally prove effective.

Still no suspicion of the truth reached me that since I came to live with him my uncle had been bitting and breaking his tongue.

Well what makes you so sure about it sneered the other bitting his lip so savageley that the blood ran.

So the Pyrenees, with her cargo of fire, was hove to, bitting the teeth of the gale and fighting and smashing the pounding seas.