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