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Definition of Gitting
1. git [v] - See also: git
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gitting
Literary usage of Gitting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1912)
"Cloudy & fogy 29 Cloudy Part of [ ]. gitting fit for the french to go on ...
Cloud[y] 3 the french is embark[ing] ; the[re] are some gitting on Board as ..."
2. The Papers of Captain Rufus Lincoln, of Wareham, Mass. by Rufus Lincoln (1903)
"... disabled to as to prevent their Serving in the Army or navy or gitting ...
or be there in otherwise So disabled as to render him incapable of gitting a ..."
3. Forest and Prairie: Or, Life on the Frontier by Emerson Bennett (1860)
"Now, boys, I've come to a spot that's al'ays been kind o' blank to me. I don't
remember gitting up—but I 'spect ..."
4. The Temperance Tales by Lucius Manlius Sargent (1856)
"Wall, ye saa the dec was gitting moor darker, but ye cud saa ony- tning claar
... The dark clouds soon after were gathering ower the moon I was gitting ..."
5. Josh Billings' Wit and Humor by Josh Billings (1874)
"I should really like tew kno how they are gitting along; rather tuff times for
them i guess, yu don't think they will winter, do yu ? ..."
6. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
""There you go—gitting excited," says Ed, appealing to the rest. ... "Not if this
Court knows herself," says the judge, gitting kinder mad. ..."
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