Bitt vs Itt - What's the difference?
bitt | itt |
(nautical) To put round the bitts.
* 1657, October 3rd: William Clarke, Letters from Flanders ; reprinted in:
* 1899 : William Clarke and Charles Harding Firth [ed.], The Clarke Papers: Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647–1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651–1660 ,
As a noun bitt
is the bitts.As a verb bitt
is to put round the bitts.As a pronoun itt is
obsolete spelling of lang=en.As an initialism ITT is
in this thread.bitt
English
Verb
(en verb)- to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away
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English
Pronoun
(English Pronouns)page 120(Camden Society)
- Itt' hath indeed bin intended by the French army to lay siege to […] and in order thereunto a conquest hath bin made of the sconce Mardyk, which did nott indure siege above 2 dayes before ' itt yielded uppon discretion,1 but since the taking thereof the resolution of beseiging Dunkirk beginneth to slacken, and I suppose will bee quitte layd aside for this […]