The bitts are nono-steel; they can be stored in the open.

Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount!

At this ominous sight, I instinctively seized the bitts for protection.

Make fast to the bitts, French, but don't foul it with the towline.

The rest was handled by robot tugs pulling on ropes wrapped around massive bitts.

This they hurried to the stern bitts, taking a pass also around the steam winch.

Watching from the mainmast bitts Bolitho saw and understood.

Hercules and Acteon, bound to the bitts, watched forward.

A man leaned on the towing bitts aft, smoking a pipe, gazing at the yawl.

I observe that your motor-boat is fitted with towing-bitts.

And I couldn't for the life of me remember what or where the bitts was.

You can let a few men go and rivet irons on the convict by the windlass bitts.

The cables ran out to the bitts.

The bitts sheltered them from the heat.

The lad he'd relieved jumps up from where he'd been napping beside the bitts, and runs forward.

The angry man followed him as far as the bowsprit bitts, but prudence forbade his going any farther.