Crossword-Solution: BITTOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bittock | n. | A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| SCOTTISH amount | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BITTOCK (5)
The agent who had this in possession, I was told, lived at the town of --, which I was informed, and indeed knew well, was distant five miles and a bittock, which may pass in a country where they are less lavish of their land for two or three more.
Next day we made a hunder an’ thirty—ye’ll note we were not racin-boats—an’ the day after a hunder an’ sixty-one, an’ that made us, we’ll say, Eighteen an’ a bittock west, an’ maybe Fifty-one an’ a bittock north, crossin’ all the North Atlantic liner lanes on the long slant, always in sight o’ the _Grotkau_, creepin’ up by night and fallin’ awa’ by day.
One man he shaved for two scones and another for a bittock of cheese, and he was in demand, because there was no other barber on board.
This is but a bittock of mineral worth a thousand dinars; why dost thou style it a jewel? A jewel I call such as is worth threescore and ten thousand gold pieces and this is called but a piece of stone.
And do thou take to thee, O Hajjaj, the greater Salve."[FN#83] Cried the Lieutenant, "What may be that?" and said the youth in reply, "A bittock of hard bread eaten[FN#84] upon the spittle, for indeed such food consumeth the phlegm and similar humours which be at the mouth of the maw.[FN#85] And let not blood in the hot bath for it enfeebleth man's force, and gaze not upon the metal pots of the Balnea because such sight breedeth dimness of vision.