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UK
/bˈæbɪt/
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[ US /ˈbæbɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈbæbɪt/ ]
VERB
- line with a Babbitt metal
NOUN
- an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for bearings that reduces friction
How To Use babbitt In A Sentence
- The lower guide-bearing (Fig. 6) is simply a sleeve flanged at one end, babbitted on the inside, and slightly tapered on the outside where it fits into the base. Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
- Formerly bastions of intellectual freedom in a world of Babbittry, formerly the locus of sexual freedom and experimentation, they now became the most restrictive environments in modern society. State of fear
- Col Babbitt and Mrs Zemp were invited to visit Rishworth School and yesterday saw the original Sowerby Parish Registers at the archives in the Central Library.
- I then buncoed the engineer of an English tramp steamer into selling me a 25-pound chunk of imported metal made by Mr. Babbitt himself and stamped with his name and coat of arms - but that lot didn't last long and I couldn't get any more of it.
- Then they got this fellow Babbitt to follow me around with that cursed gocart, and I haven't had a moment's peace since. Shorty McCabe
- Theoretically a babbitted journal bearing has an infinite life. Undefined
- The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss. 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
- The thrust of the disc from the main friction and the spring which holds it in its place, is against a babbitted face in the mandrel box. Liddell Company, Manufacturers of Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Cotton and Yarn Presses, Shafting, Pulleys, etc., Charlotte, N.C.
- In 1920, the unadmired great man of American letters, William Dean Howells, died, and Lewis published Main Street; then Babbitt (1922); Arrowsmith (1925); Elmer Gantry (1927); Dodsworth (1929). The Romance of Sinclair Lewis
- Beginning in the 1930s, Baxter D. Whitney & Sons of Winchendon, Massachusetts, supplied Babbitt-bearing-to-ball-bearing conversion kits for its early planers.