Crossword-Solution: SPIT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spit | n. | A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting. |
| Spit | n. | A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand. |
| Spit | n. | The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful. |
| Spit | n. | To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. |
| Spit | n. | To spade; to dig. |
| Spit | v. i. | To attend to a spit; to use a spit. |
| Spit | imp. & p. p. | of Spit |
| Spit | n. | To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth. |
| Spit | n. | To eject; to throw out; to belch. |
| Spit | n. | The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum. |
| Spit | v. i. | To throw out saliva from the mouth. |
| Spit | v. i. | To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPIT | anagram | ITSP, PIST, PITS, SIPT, STIP, TIPS |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SPIT (5)
This, necessarily a slow process, he found to be not altogether so difficult, and though there was no choice of a landing-place—the objects on shore passing by him in a sad and slow procession—he perceptibly approached the extremity of a spit of land yet further to the left, now well defined against the sunny portion of the horizon.
Only deign to sit and eat.” He spake no dream; for, as his words had end, Our Saviour, lifting up his eyes, beheld, In ample space under the broadest shade, A table richly spread in regal mode, 340 With dishes piled and meats of noblest sort And savour—beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Grisamber-steamed; all fish, from sea or shore, Freshet or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine bay, and Afric coast.
His heart was heavy, and he said with a disdain which he did not feel that it wasn’t anything to spit like Tom Sawyer; but another boy said, “Sour grapes!” and he wandered away a dismantled hero.
Hepzibah had no natural turn for cookery, and, to say the truth, had fairly incurred her present meagreness by often choosing to go without her dinner rather than be attendant on the rotation of the spit, or ebullition of the pot.
The courts and the EEOC, weakened to the point of extinction by the regressive administrations of the eighties, are about as effective as warm spit in enforcing compliance.
Quotes with SPIT (3)
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.
If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.
I tell you, you will not see the new beauty and the truth, until you make up your minds to spit.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 615 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).