2. Verb. (third-person singular of spit) ¹
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Definition of Spits
1. spit [v] - See also: spit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spits
Literary usage of Spits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"The embers, and above them stretch'd the spits, 270 Raising them on their racks,
and sprinkling salt. When all was roasted and on platters placed, ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"And many n good spyt hath she burned, Iron spits, however, soon superseded these
clumsy instruments, ... Í, 89. ingly Lear speaks of "red burning spits, ..."
3. Engineering Geology: By Heinrich Ries and Thomas L. Watson by Heinrich Ries, Thomas Leonard Watson (1914)
"spits, hooks, and bars. — The littoral or shore current does not follow the ...
185 — Sketch map showing a bay enclosed by a pair of overlapping spits. ..."
4. A Book about the Table by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1875)
""Don't talk about the spits, for nothing turns on them."—Vide LORD CAMPBELL'S "LiFE
OF LORD KENYON." TN the series of inventions the spit precedes the ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... that as their mangled bodies were dragged through the streets, they were
pierced (such was the universal rage) by the spits of cooks, and the distaffs ..."
6. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1892)
"... performed upon spits; the first and all that ever was made in England, and
hath given great Satisfaction to most Ingenious Men : Many that admire ..."
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