Definitions for bitts

bitts bitt

Spelling: [bit]
IPA: /bɪt/

Bitts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in bitts (bistt).

Definitions for bitts

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 bitts

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 bitts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for bitts
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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