Crossword clues for pitter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitter \Pit"ter\, n. A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and other stone fruit.
Pitter \Pit"ter\, v. i.
To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams.
[Obs.]
--R. Greene.
Wiktionary
n. 1 See pitter-patter. 2 A device that removes pits from fruit such as olives or cherries. vb. To make a pattering sound.
Wikipedia
Pitter can refer to:
- 48785 Pitter, main-belt asteroid
- Aslie Pitter MBE, British footballer
- Cherry pitter, a device to remove pits from cherries
- René Pitter, Austrian footballer
- Ruth Pitter, British poet
Usage examples of "pitter".
Remember when he took apart my Paula Pitter Pat to see what made her walk?
The cries of distant children pitter at the window, like a handful of pebbles.
The Spit phenomenon, an honest groundswell in a world controlled by public relations firms, will reach its point of atrophy and pitter out.
My heart was once a healthy pat-pat-pat, like waves beating at the shore, but now it pitters weak as a summer stream.
Pitter Pross was unhappy: The paddock guards fell asleep faster than he could circle the paddock and wake them up.
No, what interested Duncan was the bin of contrivances he had found behind Silas's counter: rusty cherry pitters, potato quillers, apple corers, fish sealers, an ingenious spiral cone for separating the white of an egg from the yolk.
It was not a stormy petrel, but a much rarer cousin with yellow feet - so rare that Stephen could not identify him until he pittered across a wave so close that those yellow feet showed clear.
Jack pulled the bell, and through the various ship-noises, all muted in this calm, he heard the quick pittering of his steward.
But still the shrill scream of the beam and the pittering screeches of the tortured rock clawed their way in through the two open hatches and screwed into my ears like surgery.
A million tons of cookware - really bizarre things, too, such as cherry pitters and olive staffers and all these copper dishes shaped like fish and fruit.
Teague knew a lot of Pitters suspected he was a scalie, a mutie, but he didn't give a damn about their suspicions.
I heard La Salterello and her younger sister sing it when I was a master's mate, just before I passed for lieutenant: Sam Rogers - a drunken whoremaster if ever there was one, God rest his soul - was sitting next to me in the silent house and you could absolutely hear the tears pittering on his knee.
Stephen gazed and gazed: after a long pause in which he pointed out a stormy petrel pittering up the side of a foaming roller he looked again and cried 'They have joined.