unbit

English

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Etymology

un- +‎ bit

Verb

unbit (third-person singular simple present unbits, present participle unbitting, simple past and past participle unbitted)

  1. (nautical, transitive) To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits.
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Verb

unbit

  1. simple past tense of unbite

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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