unbit
English
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unbit (third-person singular simple present unbits, present participle unbitting, simple past and past participle unbitted)
- (nautical, transitive) To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits.
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Verb
unbit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unbit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)