Definitions
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- transitive verb (Naut.) To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits.
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- verb nautical, transitive To remove the
turns of (arope orcable ) from thebits .
Etymologies
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un- + bit
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Examples
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By and by, when the serang and his gang had gone forward again, to unbit the cable chain and cat and fish the anchor, Jack went up on the poop to the captain.
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Little carefully studied the situation, which suggested to his fertile invention half a dozen expedients, in case he failed at the proper time to unbit the cable.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Oliver Optic 1859
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"At night, when everything is quiet, one of us will just unbit the cable, and let it run out.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Oliver Optic 1859
chained_bear commented on the word unbit
"To unbit, is to remove the turns of a cable from off the bits."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 602
October 12, 2008