Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tit box.
Examples
Sorry, no example sentences found.
hernesheir commented on the word tit box
"I first carried out a small-scale trial with half a dozen boxes made like ordinary tit boxes, with a round entrance hole on the side, but on a much bigger scale. Nest-boxes for Owls, by H.N. Southern, in the British agricultural journal The Countryman, Vol. LIII, p. 109, 1956.
September 1, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word tit box
"Some years the Great Tit breeds in the boxes almost to the exclusion of all other species, fully 80 per cent. of tit boxes being taken by them." The Agricultural Magazine, New Series Vol. 2, Nov. 1903-Oct. 1904 p. 260. The Agricultural Society for the study of British and foreign birds in freedom and captivity, Princeton Univ., D. Seth-Smith, F.S.Z, M.B.O.U., ed. (note that "tit" in this quotation as presented here is capitalized in the original citation).
September 1, 2010