Kit

(·m) A large bottle.

II. Kit ·noun A small violin.

III. Kit ·vt To Cut.

IV. Kit ·noun A Kitten.

V. Kit (·m) straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.

VI. Kit (·m) A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.

VII. Kit (·m) A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.

VIII. Kit (·m) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals;

— used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.

kit
A dancing-master, so called from his kit or cittern, a small fiddle, which dancing-masters always ca...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
kit
The whole kit. An expression common in various parts of the country. The clymit seems to me jest li...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
kit
a milking pail, like a churn, with two ears and a cover. N. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
kit
A small wooden pail or bucket, wherewith boats are baled out; generally with an ear. (See kid.) Also...

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A society of gentlemen, eminent for wit and learning, who in the reign of queen Anne and George I. m...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose