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Unbit   Listen
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Unbit  v. t.  (past & past part. unbitted; pres. part. unbitting)  (Naut.) To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, to unbit a cable.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Unbit" Quotes from Famous Books



... whispered Little, throwing an arm around the neck of each of his friends, and drawing their heads together near his mouth. "At night, when everything is quiet, one of us will just unbit the cable, and let it run out. Then another shall sing out that the vessel is going adrift. That will make a row. Then we will try to do something. You, Herman, and I, will offer to carry a line to another vessel—the ship, for instance. Carboy—who don't know any more about ...
— Down the Rhine - Young America in Germany • Oliver Optic



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