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Meanings of bitt in English

Catalan
norai

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.

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        Examples for "bollard"
        Examples for "bollard"
        1
        One of the polemen jumped ashore, securing a line to a bollard.
        Millennium
        2
        But the next driver affected by the bollard issue was Aussie Daniel Ricciardo.
        News.com.au
        3
        There was a small group ahead of him, leaning on a concrete bollard.
        Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
        4
        He was propped against a bollard and he was in his shore-going clothes.
        The Beach of Dreams: A Romance
        5
        He came out and threw a line over a bollard on the jetty.
        Coalition's End
        Usage of bitt in English
        1
        Hercules and Actæon ,clingingto the bitt, kept watch at the bow.
        Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
        2
        And Pencroft showed a rope which fastened the cable to the bitt itself.
        The Mysterious Island
        3
        I'm being towed by a fish and I'm the towing bitt.
        The old man and the sea
        4
        He fell within two feet of me, cracking his head on a mooring-bitt.
        A Set of Six
        5
        One man I noticed fetch up, head on and square on, with the starboard bitt.
        South Sea Tales
        6
        Joe leaned over the side, grasped the trailing painter, and made it fast to the bitt.
        The Cruise of the Dazzler
        7
        Like the chinking of a bitt curb?
        Gaspar the Gaucho: A Story of the Gran Chaco
        8
        His hands blurred and conjured up a perfect knot, making them fast to a heavy iron bitt on the pier.
        The system of the world
        9
        Nearly impossible to speak over the howl; Laurence simply pointed at the second larboard bitt, Leddowes nodded, and they set off.
        Throne of Jade
        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.
        The Cruise of the Dazzler
        11
        Then he took two turns of the harpoon line around the bitt in the bow and hid his head on his hands.
        The old man and the sea
        12
        A bight of steel cable was gotten around the breech, and then passed to a big bitt, or stanchion, bolted to the deck.
        Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon; Or, The Longest Shots on Record
        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.
        The new yorker
        14
        The bitts are nono-steel; they can be stored in the open.
        Genesis
        15
        Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount!
        Moby Dick
        16
        At this ominous sight, I instinctively seized the bitts for protection.
        Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
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        Translations for bitt
        Catalan
        norai
        Bitt through the time