Bitts were posts on the deck, for purposes of belaying.
You had better hand over your kits to me to keep for you, otherwise there won’t be much left at the end of the first night; and if you like I will let you stow yourselves away at night in the bitts forward.
Then it was led along outside the shrouds and fastened to the bitts astern and then to the mizzen-mast.
He withdrew, closing the slide, and went forward with Carroll to shorten in the cable; but when they stopped beside the bitts his companion broke into a laugh.
Finally they seemed to me kinder and kinder, giving me of the best bitts where lesse wormes weare.
They were in the midst of breakfast, the trawl having been dragging along the bottom of the sea for not quite an hour, when, all at once, the rope holding it attached to the bowsprit-bitts began to jerk violently.
The stairs to the auditorium were narrow and steep; Mrs. Roderick Magsworth Bitts was of a stout favour; and the voice of Penrod was audible during the ascent.
The Magsworth Bitts manner was withholding and reserved, though sometimes gracious, granting small smiles as great favours and giving off a chilling kind of preciousness.
She's a relation of all the Bitts family, but he's her one and only living nephew.
Of course you and I and everybody who really knows the Bitts and Magsworth families understand the perfect absurdity of it; but I suppose there are ever so many who'll believe it, no matter what the Bittses and Magsworths say.
However, the statement that no sensible person could have connected the Magsworth Bitts family with the arsenical Rena takes no account of Penrod Schofield.
For a horrible moment he saw Mrs. Roderick Magsworth Bitts approaching like some fatal mountain in avalanche.
By common consent, Mrs. Roderick Magsworth Bitts officiated as the supreme model as well as critic-in-chief of morals and deportment for all the unlucky people prosperous enough to be elevated to her acquaintance.
Master Bittslaughed loud and long; he was derisive.
Verman had been the official paddler during the initiations of Roddy Bittsand Maurice Levy; his work had been conscientious, and it seemed to be taken by consent that he was to continue in office.
But Roddy Bittsforesaw that something not within the rules of the game was about to happen.
Penrod sternly, and added: "Roddy Bittsmust now say the oath.
And thus they were discovered by a foray of the hostile party, headed by Roddy Bitts and Herman (older brother to Verman) and followed by the bonded prisoners, Maurice Levy and Georgie Bassett.
The police insist that it must have been an inside job, but Mr. Magsworth Bitts inclines to think it was the work of a negro, as only one article was removed and nothing else found to be disturbed.
The Bowsprit Bitts to run down to the Ceiling, with a Bolt in the Keel of each, and so placed that the Bowsprit may be run aft clear of the Mast Larboard Side.
The plank under, and between the Bitts Knees, to be English Oak 2-1/2 inches thick, the whole to be fastened with Copper Nails of sufficient length.
Size of the Bitts at the head fore and aft 7 inches, thwartships 6 inches, and to be the same size at lower part of Deck, with a regular taper to heel.
Dick soon found that his duties were not very onerous, and provided he was smart and active, Mr Bitts appeared to be satisfied.
Mr Bitts piped his call, until, as Paddy Logan observed, "it seemed mighty curious that he had any wind left in his body.
I don't know what will become of the discipline of the ship, if the warrant officers venture to interfere in the way old Bitts has done," observed Voules.
He took the first opportunity of paying a visit to the cabin of Mr Bitts the boatswain.
Mr Bitts had, by some means or other, discovered how Lord Reginald behaved to Dick, but had not actually seen him struck.
Voules was as good as his word, every time the opportunity occurred, though he took very good care that Mr Bitts should not see him ill-treating Dick.
The bitts which support the ends or spindles of the windlass, whence they are also called windlass-bitts.
Any turn of a cable about the bitts is called a bitter.
The fore-part of a ship between decks, before the bitts (see SICK-BAY).
Also, a small cylindrical machine attached to masts or bitts in vessels, for the purpose of hoisting anything out of the hold, warping, &c.
Iron or wood brackets suspended to the paul-bitts of a windlass, and dropping into appropriate scores, act as a security to the purchase.
Also abaft the windlass or bitts to prevent more cable from running out.
Since the introduction of chain-cables, bitts are coated with iron, and vary in their shapes.
Also, the notches made in the carrick-bitts for receiving the metal bushes wherein the spindle of a windlass works.
Two turns of the cable round the bitts instead of one.
To clap a stopper over all, to stop a thing effectually; to clap on the stopper before the bitts next to the manger or hawse-hole; to order silence.
Not much time was wasted in preliminaries, the boatswain, who acted as master of the ceremonies, placing me against the windlass bitts while my opponent had his back to the galley, what light there was remaining shining full upon him.
Make the fall fast around the bitts or mast where you can readily get at it, and hold a turn to set it up.
Get a good turn round the bitts and after the hook has taken hold slack away handsomely, but at the same time keep full control.
He withdrew, closing the slide, and went forward with Carroll to shorten in the cable; but when they stopped beside the bitts his companion broke into a soft laugh.
II When Kieran came on deck again the third officer had gone forward, but the passenger was still on one of the towing bitts and still smoking.
The big hawser strained and groaned, chocks and bitts crooned their song of stress, the wind whistled its dirge, while out from the breakers the Whist hauled her tow.
He was there, back to, bending the thick stubborn bight about the towing bitts with slow, heavy motions.
Before this another gang had been able to slip the other chain to position abaft the mizzenmast, hook on the tackle, and lead the fall through a snatch-block at the quarter-bitts forward to the midship capstan.
It was a seven-inch steel hawser with a Manila tail, which they had taken to the foretopsail-sheet bitts before the jib-boom had gone.
When it was within reach Captain Barney leaned out, made one end of the line fast to the tug's rudder post and then, paying out about twenty feet, he fastened the other end to the bitts in the bow of the rowboat.
Dan knew in an instant that they had lashed the line to the stern bitts and had taken the desperate chance, the only chance, of making the tug pull her lifeboat from danger.
The outer end is buoyed to a float which carries a flag and a lantern; the inner is fast to the bitts of the launch.
She bore down upon her consort, sidled alongside and made fast with lines to the bitts fore and aft.
The foretopsail sheet bitts presented the next eligible place, and here I "mounted guard.
We used to put pieces of tobacco on top of the windlass-bitts, and then let him butt the bitts till he brought the tobacco down and put it in his pocket.
Bitts tried to cry out; but when he did so, Phillips ordered the hands at the buntline to haul taut.
Bitts goes to sleep; and Cleats may go below for something," said Little, dropping his voice to a whisper.
Bitts thought he had said a clever thing; and, chuckling at his own wit, he turned on his heel, and walked aft to the waist.
Bitts was obliged to keep still, for when he struggled to release his neck with his hands the rope was tightened.
If the plan is adopted, I should like to have Peaks and Bitts with me, to act as watch officers with Cleats and Gage.
Cleats and Bitts will be on the mid watch to-night.
Cleats and Bitts have the next watch," continued Little, suggestively.
Bitts was not so obliging as to lean against a mast, or anything else, and the conspirators were compelled to take him flying.
Bitts leans against the foremast, and goes to sleep.
Besides, Bitts did not lean against the mast and go to sleep, and Cleats sent a hand down to bring up his luncheon, and the vice-principal staid on deck nearly all night.
No; Bitts put a lock on that scuttle this morning, and the forward officers are watching all the time.
The bowsprit was above deck and would probably be secured in the knighthead timbers at the ends of the hull, as well as by the heel bittsshown in the Danish lines drawing.
For an hour Mr. Gibney sat on the stern bitts and ruminated over a few advantageous plans that had occurred to him for the investment of his share of the deal should Scraggs and McGuffey succeed in landing what Mr. Gibney termed "the loot.
Gibney and McGuffey might have been observed seated on the sternbitts smoking, the picture of contentment.
The Squarehead stationed himself at the bitts with a lantern and Mr. Gibney hastened to the pilot house and took his place at the wheel.
They were still seated on the stern bitts as the Maggie came abreast the Point Montara fog signal station, when Mr. Gibney observed a long telescope poking out the side window of the pilot house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bitts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
