bittock

Examples

• 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.

  Chronicles of the Canongate

• This is but a bittock of mineral worth a thousand dinars; why dost thou style it a jewel?

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• So we started away at 8.15 p.m., marched 7 miles and a bittock to lunch, putting up a "top-hat" cairn at 4 miles, two cairns at the lunch camp, one cairn three miles beyond, and so on according to plan.

  South with Scott

• There's no sense in crossing a bridge till you come to it, and this bridge is still four months and a bittock away.

  The Scotch Twins

• We continued, however, to ride on without pause and even when night fell and overshadowed the desolate wilds which we traversed, we were, as I understood from Mr. Jarvie, still three miles and a bittock distant from the place where we were to spend the night.

  Rob Roy

• But there's ae thing that God nor man canna bide in a watch, an 'that's whan it stan's still for a bittock, an' syne gangs on again.

  Robert Falconer