A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed on the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines etc. are secured.
1Hercules and Actæon ,clingingto the bitt, kept watch at the bow.
2And Pencroft showed a rope which fastened the cable to the bitt itself.
3I'm being towed by a fish and I'm the towing bitt.
4He fell within two feet of me, cracking his head on a mooring-bitt.
5One man I noticed fetch up, head on and square on, with the starboard bitt.
6Joe leaned over the side, grasped the trailing painter, and made it fast to the bitt.
7Like the chinking of a bitt curb?
8His hands blurred and conjured up a perfect knot, making them fast to a heavy iron bitt on the pier.
9Nearly impossible to speak over the howl; Laurence simply pointed at the second larboard bitt, Leddowes nodded, and they set off.
10Joe climbed over the cockpit-rail to the slippery after-deck, and made his way to the bitt to which the skiff was fastened.
11Then he took two turns of the harpoon line around the bitt in the bow and hid his head on his hands.
12A bight of steel cable was gotten around the breech, and then passed to a big bitt, or stanchion, bolted to the deck.
13He thinks she is a bitt stuffy, but while with her he meets a girl in a bookstore whom he falls in love with.
14The bitts are nono-steel; they can be stored in the open.
15Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount!
16At this ominous sight, I instinctively seized the bitts for protection.