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bitt

NOUN
  1. a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines)
    the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards
VERB
  1. secure with a bitt
    bitt the ship line

How To Use bitt In A Sentence

  • This is not good for anybody, except for a few curmudgeons and people who are embittered by nothing more than their own embitteredness.
  • He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
  • There is a great deal of feeling and perhaps some bitterness, but do you not all agree with me that it is quite possible, since there is a fashion of armament in Europe, and since there has been no withdrawal on the part of the Admiralty from the stand taken by the First Lord some months ago, to have the entire Canadian people approach this situation in a calm and in an impartial manner? Canada and the Empire
  • His wife shopped him to me with a bitter complaint about his clothes bill.
  • They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over their three children.
  • Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
  • ‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
  • All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality. Erema — My Father's Sin
  • His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method.
  • The gods are dispassionate, jealous, vainly superior, and sometimes unfair and bitter.
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