"bitts," a strong iron structure placed between the hawse and navel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Categories: jerry bitts thomas mcgrath | death song poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [June « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

"Her for'ard bitts, foremast, and most of her bow was gone ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”] Reference

Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? jerry bitts | teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [jerry bitts | teeth « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

I am safe in London, and have had several bitts of good fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 30] Reference

The end of an anchor cable is fastened to the bitts at the ship's bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nautical Terminology #7: The bitter end] Reference

I friez da bred on da insied bitts, maeks nais crunsch. heer, tri sum….    From Wordnik.com.  [The day the barking - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Yes I got a blood test and they said that they found bacon bitts in the blood!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I’M SCARED - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

A single turn of cable is often taken round the bitts when anchoring in deep water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Captain Miles was standing by the mainmast bitts, there setting them down before him for judgment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

It was during that time that Thelma came in with her bitts carried away, warping at Fowey for the clay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie Night] Reference

Her for'ard bitts, foremast, and most of her bow were gone, having been jerked out of her by her anchors.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE PEARLS OF PARLAY] Reference

The octopus had a nice soft texture and seemed from the black bitts on the edges to have been well grilled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Augieland:] Reference

When Jonas came with the bridle, Major would hold his head down, and take in his bitts, and appear as docile as a lamb.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People, by a Pastor] Reference

But the anchors held, and so nobly that our final anxiety was that the for'ard bitts would be jerked clean out of the boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [SMALL-BOAT SAILING] Reference

U can get teh hokeh-pokeh icecreem which is filled with teh WIN – icecreen wif teh liddle scrunxey honeecoby toffeey bitts in.    From Wordnik.com.  [rockstah kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

"I tell you what, you shall slush that mast down from the main-truck to the bitts; and look sharp about it, too, or I'll make you!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

"We did get the bight of a cable over the breech, but the men could not hold it, even though they took a couple of turns around the bitts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference

Here you are, Pip; and there's the windlass-bitts; up you mount!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

"She cannot stand this long, Bob," said I, as we clung to the bitts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Percival Keene] Reference

Miss Proctor perched on the bitts, while the men stood or leaned near at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Bobby Orde] Reference

I found him roosting on the bitts forward, with his head down between his knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] Reference

Our steamer was headed up the stream, and held by a single hawser leading to the bowsprit-bitts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi] Reference

All at once, the sailor having examined the bitts to which the cable of the anchor was secured.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of the Island] Reference

The angry man followed him as far as the bowsprit bitts, but prudence forbade his going any farther.    From Wordnik.com.  [Work and Win or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise] Reference

Then it was led along outside the shrouds and fastened to the bitts astern and then to the mizzen-mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson] Reference

Captain Bunker stood near the bitts, where his brief orders were transmitted to the man at the almost useless wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crusade of the Excelsior] Reference

I had quitted the gangway, where there was no hold, and had repaired to the main bitts, behind the stump of the main-mast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Percival Keene] Reference

Not long before you got out of that hole, a large passenger steamer came alongside, and held on at our bowsprit-bitts awhile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi] Reference

The end of the fast had been passed around a pine-tree, and made fast at the bitts, so that we could unmoor without going on shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi] Reference

It was a seven-inch steel hawser with a Manila tail, which they had taken to the foretopsail-sheet bitts before the jib-boom had gone.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea] Reference

The two hands assigned to the duty sprang upon the forecastle of the Islander, and made fast the rope they carried to the bowsprit-bitts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Up the River or, Yachting on the Mississippi] Reference