Crossword-Solution: BITTS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bitts | n. pl. | A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “BITTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Posts for tying hawsers. | 1 answer |
| Windlass supports. | 1 answer |
| Vertical ship posts | 1 answer |
| Vertical posts: naut. | 1 answer |
| Towlines are tied around them | 1 answer |
| They secure ship ropes | 1 answer |
| Ship's posts | 1 answer |
| Ship deck posts | 1 answer |
| Posts on a ship's deck | 1 answer |
| Bollards | 1 answer |
| Mooring posts | 1 answer |
| Mooring line posts | 1 answer |
| Holders for ship's cables | 1 answer |
| Devices for a ship's cables. | 1 answer |
| Deck posts: Naut. | 1 answer |
| Deck posts to secure ships' lines. | 1 answer |
| Deck posts for cables | 1 answer |
| Deck posts | 1 answer |
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Sentences with BITTS (5)
Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
Wilbur was busy at the forward bitts preparing to cast loose from the kelp, and Moran had taken up her position at the wheel when suddenly she exclaimed: “Sail ho!--and in God's name what kind of a sail do you call it?” In fact a strange-looking craft had just made her appearance at the entrance of Magdalena Bay.
This was Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Junior, a fellow sufferer at the Friday Afternoon Dancing Class, but otherwise not often a companion: a home-sheltered lad, tutored privately and preserved against the coarsening influences of rude comradeship and miscellaneous information.
Nevertheless, Roderick Magsworth Bitts, Junior, was a personage on account of the importance of the Magsworth Bitts family; and it was Penrod's destiny to increase Roderick's celebrity far, far beyond its present aristocratic limitations.
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Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 33 times in crossword archives (1943–2018).