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biter
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Word definitions for biter in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biter \Bit"er\, n. One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish. ``Great barkers are no biters.'' --Camden. One who cheats; a sharper. [Colloq.] --Spectator.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites. 2 (context curling English) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house. 3 (context slang English) One who plagiarizes.
Usage examples of biter.
As an officer on the Biter, a Press tender based in the London River, he learns about the darker side of city life.
With his fellow officer Sam Holt, he also has his first appalling encounter with the Free Trade as the Biter ranges coastal waters to prey on returning merchantmen.
That is to say, the Biter has such things, cots for the officers, all comforts of the home.
God man, the Biter is my ship, Lieutenant Kaye is my commander, what should I say to you?
Then you will see the Biter for yourself, for your approval or disdain!
The Biter was the sort of ship his sort of officer men without interest went to as if by natural law, he said.
He was a prig and fool, it served him right to end up on the Biter, there was no argument about it, none at all.
The Biter, although small, was not flush-decked, and they stood now at the poop-break, by a door.
In six months before this latest refit, I am informed, the Biter saw action of a sort just thrice.
And the Biter is a shitty ship, a filthy and corrupt ship, that needs some iron in her soul, and I would like to be it.
I do not know why he needs the Biter, he uses her somehow like old King Charlie used his yachts, in golden days.
Eight Life on the Biter was an easy life, Bentley could see that and he could comprehend it.
The Biter was on the dockyard tiers, swarming with yardmen, with attendant noise and mess.
In the Biter, in the Impress, and with a man Sam Holt most roundly hated.
But he did not converse with Holt about it until much afterwards, until they had rowed downstream at last to where Biter lay silent on the Deptford tiers.