Phrase Hound found 4 phrases and 26 compound words that contain bitt. The most common are listed below. Open bitt in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 4
- bitt-headsThe upright timbers let in and bolted to the beams or the deck, and stepped to the backbone or infrastructure of the ship.
- bitt-pinA device like a belaying pin but of heavier scantlings; a turned length of wood or metal passed through the bitts or cross-piece, used to prevent the cable from slipping off or over the bitt-heads yet removable so as to facilitate doing so.
- bitt-pinsplural of bitt-pin: A device like a belaying pin but of heavier scantlings; a turned length of wood or metal passed through the bitts or cross-piece, used to prevent the cable from slipping off or over the bitt-heads yet removable so as to …
- towing bittAny of the vertical posts on a vessel to which towlines or mooring lines are secured.
Compound words 26
- unbittTo remove from the bitts.
- bittheadThe top of a bitt.
- forebittA post at the foremast of a ship, used to secure cables.
- babbittEllipsis of babbitt metal or Babbitt metal (“a soft white alloy of variable composition used in bearings to diminish friction”).
- bitternSeveral bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae.
- bittersplural of bitter: Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- NesbittA civil parish without a council in County Durham, England.
- BittnerA surname.
- RabbittA surname.
- BittingerA surname.