Deck-fitting on a ship or boat, and used to secure ropes.
1The bitts are nono-steel; they can be stored in the open.
2Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount!
3At this ominous sight, I instinctively seized the bitts for protection.
4Make fast to the bitts, French, but don't foul it with the towline.
5The rest was handled by robot tugs pulling on ropes wrapped around massive bitts.
6This they hurried to the stern bitts, taking a pass also around the steam winch.
7Watching from the mainmast bitts Bolitho saw and understood.
8Hercules and Acteon, bound to the bitts, watched forward.
9A man leaned on the towing bitts aft, smoking a pipe, gazing at the yawl.
10I observe that your motor-boat is fitted with towing-bitts.
11And I couldn't for the life of me remember what or where the bitts was.
12You can let a few men go and rivet irons on the convict by the windlass bitts.
13The cables ran out to the bitts.
14The bitts sheltered them from the heat.
15The lad he'd relieved jumps up from where he'd been napping beside the bitts, and runs forward.
16The angry man followed him as far as the bowsprit bitts, but prudence forbade his going any farther.