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Significados de bitts en inglés

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Deck-fitting on a ship or boat, and used to secure ropes.

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Uso de bitts en inglés
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The bitts are nono-steel; they can be stored in the open.
Genesis
2
Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount!
Moby Dick
3
At this ominous sight, I instinctively seized the bitts for protection.
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
4
Make fast to the bitts, French, but don't foul it with the towline.
A Victorious Union
5
The rest was handled by robot tugs pulling on ropes wrapped around massive bitts.
Seveneves
6
This they hurried to the stern bitts, taking a pass also around the steam winch.
Dan Merrithew
7
Watching from the mainmast bitts Bolitho saw and understood.
The Only Victor
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Hercules and Acteon, bound to the bitts, watched forward.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
9
A man leaned on the towing bitts aft, smoking a pipe, gazing at the yawl.
Burned Bridges
10
I observe that your motor-boat is fitted with towing-bitts.
Kindred of the Dust
11
And I couldn't for the life of me remember what or where the bitts was.
Three ways to capsize a boat: an optimist afloat
12
You can let a few men go and rivet irons on the convict by the windlass bitts.
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
13
The cables ran out to the bitts.
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
14
The bitts sheltered them from the heat.
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"
15
The lad he'd relieved jumps up from where he'd been napping beside the bitts, and runs forward.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
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The angry man followed him as far as the bowsprit bitts, but prudence forbade his going any farther.
Work and Win; Or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise
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Translations for bitts
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Bitts a través del tiempo