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n.
A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.
n.
A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
n. pl.
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.
n.
See Bitts.
v. t.
To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.
n.
AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
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