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Definition: BITTS |
BITTSNoun plural1. A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc. |
Date "BITTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references) |
Crosswords: BITTS |
| English words defined with "BITTS": Bitter end ♦ Carrick bitts ♦ Gallows bitts, Gallows frame ♦ riding bitt. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BITTS": bolster piece ♦ canal-structure operator ♦ laborer, marine terminal, LINES TENDER, LOCK OPERATOR. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | View of the ship's anchor well, with its cover removed, photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1898. Note anchor chain running out of hause hole and around a roller inside the well, and other chain wrapped around the forward deck bitts.Credit: NAVY. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "BITTS": Carrick bitts ♦ Gallows bitts. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BITTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | slaebebuk (towing bitts), pullert (bitt, bollard, mooring bitts, mooring post), fortoejningspullert (bollard, holdfast for boathooks, mooring bit, mooring bitts). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | voorbolder (mooring bitts), sleepbok (towing bitts), sleepbeting (towing bitts), haalpen (bollard, holdfast for boathooks, mooring bit, mooring bitts, toggle). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | boulard (bitt, mooring bitts), bitte d'amarrage (bitt, mooring bit, mooring bitts), potence de remorque (towing bitts). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Vorderpoller (mooring bitts), Schleppbock (towing bitts), Schleppbeting (towing bitts), Hinterpoller (mooring bitts), Doppelpoller (mooring bitts), Ankerbeting (bollard, mooring bit, mooring bitts). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | κιονίσκοι προσδέσεως ρυμουλκίων σχοινιών (towing bitts), κίονας πρυμνοδέτησης (mooring bitts), μπαμπάδες προσδέσεως ρυμουλκίων σχοινιών (towing bitts), μπίντες προσδέσεως ρυμουλκίων σχοινιών (towing bitts), μπίντα (bitt, bollard, mooring bitts), δέστρα (bitt, bollard, dolphin, mooring bit, mooring bitts, mooring post, pile mooring, warp tyer). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | זקפי ספון. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | bitta prodiera (mooring bitts), bitta d'ormeggio (bitt, bollard, mooring bit, mooring bitts, mooring post). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ittsbay bita de amarre (bollard, mooring bit, mooring bitts), bita (bitt, bollard, mooring bitts). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "BITTS": babbitts. (additional references) | |
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"BITTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: batts, betst, betts, bidst, Biott, bitc, bitchs, Bitot, Bitsa, Bitta, bitte, Bitti, Bitz, bnits, Botts. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "itts": Witts. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: bits, bitt, tits. | |
-2 letters: bis, bit, its, sib, sit, tis, tit. | |
-3 letters: bi, is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: britts, tubist. | |
+2 letters: abattis, baptist, batiste, battiks, bistate, bistort, bitters, bushtit, butties, tidbits, titbits, tubaist, tubists, turbits. | |
+3 letters: abstrict, babbitts, baptists, batistes, battiest, battings, biotites, birettas, bistorts, bitstock, bitterns, bittiest, bittings, bittocks, blithest, botanist, botrytis, brattish, brittles, bushtits, bustiest, frostbit, habitats, obtusity, stibnite, stilbite, subtilty, subtitle, tabetics, tributes, tubaists, tubbiest, turbiths. | |
+4 letters: abattises, abattoirs, abstinent, abstricts, baptistry, battalias, batteries, battiness, belittles, besetting, besotting, birrettas, bitchiest, bitstocks, bitterest, bitterish, blastiest, blottiest, botanists, botchiest, bottlings, brattices, brattiest, brightest, brittlest, butteries, buttinski, buttinsky, embitters, frostbite, habitants, imbitters, intubates, librettos, misbutton, obstetric, obstinate, obtesting, stability, stibnites, stilbites, stirabout, stubbiest, submittal, submitted, subtilest, subtitled, subtitles, tenebrist, ytterbias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 49 54 54 53 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. - - ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001001 01010100 01010100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B I T T S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0049 0054 0054 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3643545453 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Photo Album 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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