vent-bit

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• Vent

  ·vt To scent, as a hound. II. Vent ·noun Sale; opportunity to sell; market. III. Vent ·noun A bait...

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• vent

  In artillery, the small aperture near the breech by which the fire of the priming is communicated to...

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• Bit

  ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Bite. II. Bit ·v The cutting iron of a plane. III. Bit ·- of <<Bite>>. IV. Bit...

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• Bit

  The curb put into the mouths of horses to restrain them. The Hebrew word (metheg) so rendered in Ps....

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• bit

  Money. He grappled the cull's bit; he seized the man's money. A bit is also the smallest coin in Jam...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bit

  1) past part. of the verb bite. Cheated, taken in. In Yorkshire, England, a cheat is called a bite. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bit

  A West Indian silver coin, varying from 4 d. to 6 d. In America it is 12-1/2 cents, and in the Spani...

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• vent-piece

  The movable fitment which closes the breech and contains the vent in Armstrong breech-loading guns. ...

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• vent-plug

  A fid or stopple made of leather or oakum fitting in the vent of a piece to stop it against weather,...

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• Canker-bit

  ·adj Eaten out by canker, or as by canker. ...

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• Canon bit

  ·- That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth. ...

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• Fippenny bit

  ·- The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, — so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent...

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• Frogs-bit

  ·noun <<Frogbit>>. ...

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• Hunger-bit

  ·adj ·Alt. of Hunger-bitten. ...

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• Weather-bit

  ·noun A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without the bits. ...

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• fippenny bit

  or contracted, FIP. Fivepence. In the State of Pennsylvania, the vulgar name for the Spanish half-re...

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• dab bit

  a small quantity, less than a dab. Glou. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• way-bit

  (or rather a WEE-BIT), a little piece ; a mile and a wee -bit, or way-bit. Yorksh. WEE is Scotch for...

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• Vol-au-vent

  ·noun A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl,...

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• Wait-a-bit

  ·add. ·noun The prickly ash. II. Wait-a-bit ·add. ·noun The grapple plant. III. Wait-a-bit ·add. ·...

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• queer bit-makers

  Coiners. CANT. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• rouse and bit

  The order to turn out of the hammocks. ...

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• serve the vent, to

  To stop it with the thumb. ...

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• stop the vent, to

  To close it hermetically by pressing the thumb to it. ...

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• vent-field of a gun

  The raised tablet in the metal near the breech in which the vent is bored. ...

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