kit

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

The whole kit. An expression common in various parts of the country.


The clymit seems to me jest like a teapot made o' pewter

Our Prudence had, that wouldn't pour (all she could do) to suit her

Fust place the leave would choke the spent, so's not a drop would dreen out,

Then Prude would tip, and tip, and tip till the whole kit bust clean out,

The kiver-hinge-pin bein lost, tea leaves, and tea, and kiver

Would all come down kerwosh! as though the dam broke in a river.--Poetical Epistle from a Volunteer.

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