Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pained, pinched, or weakened by hunger.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Pinched or weakened by hunger.

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Examples

  • Those that make conscience of walking in the commandments of God, they shall be blessed with the bread of life, when others shall be hunger-bit.

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • Those that make conscience of walking in the commandments of God, they shall be blessed with the bread of life, when others shall be hunger-bit.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

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