Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of putting the bit into a horse's mouth, one of the steps in horse-breaking; bridling.
- noun In weaving, the piecing of warp-threads in the loom with short bits of yarn, to aid in drawing in through the harnesses and reed of wider warps than are commonly used, and for other purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the part of a
key that engages thetumblers to activate thelock - verb Present participle of
bitt .
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Examples
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Clinton have done so much for African American and now such back bitting is disgusting.
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So the change Congress made, by Democrats, to delay the process of installing a new Senator is bitting them in the butt.
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Using modest imaging equipment and standard computer vision algorithms, we demonstrate the effectiveness of physical key teleduplication --- extracting a key's complete and precise bitting code at a distance via optical decoding and then cutting precise duplicates.
Boing Boing 2009
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There are plenty of hard bitting conservative journalists out there, Mr. Yglesias.
Matthew Yglesias » Right-Wing Media’s Human Capital Problem 2009
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So the Pyrenees, with her cargo of fire, was hove to, bitting the teeth of the gale and fighting and smashing the pounding seas.
THE SEED OF McCOY 2010
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Stop with the political back bitting. .there is a time for everything ... right now ... two souls have return to their families and that is what counts most.
Freed journalist: 'We knew the nightmare was...coming to an end 2009
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Its obnoxious because it is distracting and also bitting your lip and shifting your hair is not acting, ugh
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Come spring and summer, I just throw watever is in my box till I find what the fish are bitting best.
when do you use topwater lures like poppers and soft plastics, crank baits, and spinner's 2010
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They keep bitting because it is their TRUE way of life ...
GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me' 2009
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Come spring and summer, I just throw watever is in my box till I find what the fish are bitting best.
when do you use topwater lures like poppers and soft plastics, crank baits, and spinner's 2010
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