Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- put upon a spit; thrust through, as if with a spit; impaled.
- Spiked, or shot out to a point like a spit or bodkin, but without tines or branches: said of the antlers of a deer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete p. p. of
spit , v. i., to eject, to spit. - adjective Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.
- adjective Shot out long; -- said of antlers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb nonstandard Simple past tense and past participle of
spit . (expectorate, etc, Etymology 2) - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
spit . (Etymology 1)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The common name of "cow-spit," with the implied indignity to our "rural divinity," becomes singularly ludicrous when we observe not only the frequent generous display of the suds samples, thousands upon thousands in a single small meadow, but the further fact that each mass is so exactly landed upon the central stalk of grass or other plant -- "spitted" through its centre, as it were.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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This caused jamming, digging out with a pocket knife, and a whole lot of cussing while my friends continued raining down ducks, as I spitted out my choice words at Winchester.
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