Crossword clues for bitt
bitt
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shop \Shop\, obs.
imp. of Shape. Shaped.
--Chaucer.
Shop \Shop\, n. [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, G. schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. scopf.]
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A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter.
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A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
A tailor called me in his shop.
--Shak. A person's occupation, business, profession, or the like, as a subject of attention, interest, conversation, etc.; -- sometimes in deprecation or disapproval; as, to talk shop at a party. Also used attributively, as in shop talk.
A place where any industry is carried on; as, a chemist's shop; also, (Slang), any of the various places of business which are commonly called offices, as of a lawyer, doctor, broker, etc.
Any place of resort, as one's house, a restaurant, etc.
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the group of workers and the activities controlled by an administrator; as, to have five people in one's shop.
Note: Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession.
To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. [Colloq.]
Syn: Store; warehouse. See Store.
Shop \Shop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping.] To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go
shopping.
--Byron.
Metapophysis \Met`a*poph"y*sis\, n.; pl. Metapophyses. [NL. See Meta-, and Apophysis.] (Anat.) A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebr[ae]; a mammillary process.
Bitt \Bitt\, n. (Naut.) See Bitts.
Bitt \Bitt\, v. t. [See Bitts.] (Naut.)
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.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
interj. (non-gloss definition: Used to attract the services of a shop assistant) n. 1 An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well. 2 A place where things are crafted; a workshop or hobbyshop. 3 An automobile mechanic's workplace. 4 workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as ''shop talk'', ''closed shop'' and ''shop floor''. 5 A variety of classes taught in junior high school or senior high school that teach vocational skill. 6 (context business computing English) an organisation using specified programming languages or software, often exclusively. 7 An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies. 8 (label en figurative uncountable) Discussion of business or professional affairs. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To visit shops; to look around shops with the intention of buying something. 2 (context transitive slang chiefly UK English) To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority. 3 (context transitive internet slang English) Shorthand for ''photoshop''; to digitally edit a picture or photograph.
n. (context anatomy English) A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebrae; a mammillary process.
n. 1 (context nautical English) The bitts. 2 (context nautical English) A bollard. vb. (context nautical English) To put round the bitts.
WordNet
n. a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" [syn: store]
small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done [syn: workshop]
a course of instruction in a trade (as carpentry or electricity); "I built a birdhouse in shop" [syn: shop class]
v. do one's shopping; "She goes shopping every Friday"
do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of [syn: patronize, patronise, shop at, buy at, frequent, sponsor] [ant: boycott, boycott]
shop around; not necessarily buying; "I don't need help, I'm just browsing" [syn: browse]
give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, snitch, stag]
n. a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines); "the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards" [syn: bollard]
v. secure with a bitt; "bitt the ship line"
Usage examples of "bitt".
His hands blurred and conjured up a perfect knot, making them fast to a heavy iron bitt on the pier.
Roddy Bitts, and touched Penrod and Sam, each in turn, with his sabre.
But Roddy Bitts foresaw that something not within the rules of the game was about to happen.
Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Junior, were growing faint with increasing distance, Sam and Penrod had forgotten their differences and felt well disposed toward each other once more.
This last was employed for the benefit of Master Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Junior, on the Saturday following the flag-raising.
Penrod Schofield and Roderick Bitts and Maurice Levy LURED GEORGIE INTO THE CELLAR AND HAD HIM BEATEN BY NEGROES!
Not his alone: at that very moment Master Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Junior, was suffering also, consequent upon telephoning on the part of Mrs.
Sam Williams appeared in the doorway, and, behind Sam, Master Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Junior.
Master Bitts returned, and his manner was both dogged and apprehensive, the apprehension being more prevalent when he looked at Sam.
Magsworth Bitts inclines to think it was the work of a negro, as only one article was removed and nothing else found to be disturbed.
Master Roderick Magsworth Bitts, and the sound of splintering wood mingled with other sounds.
Giving up on making a meal on it, he brushed his hands and stood on the jear bitts for a better view.
The only way to judge was to stand on a gun breech or the jear bitts and watch the many isles and rocks slide past.
Meanwhile the bosun and his mates, together with the most experienced forecastle hands and tierers, roused out the best cable the Diane possessed, the most nearly new and unfrayed, a seventeen-inch cable that they turned end for end - no small undertaking in that confined space, since it weighed three and a half tons - and bent it to the best bower anchor by the wholly unworn end that had always been abaft the bitts: the bitter end.
Tewsley at the forebrace bitts why he is absent when parts-of-ship for exercise has been piped!