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