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Spit   /spɪt/   Listen
noun
Spit  n.  
1.
A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
2.
A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
3.
The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful. (Prov. Eng.)


Spit  n.  The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.


verb
Spit  v. t.  (past & past part. spitted; pres. part. spitting)  
1.
To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. "Infants spitted upon pikes."
2.
To spade; to dig. (Prov. Eng.)


Spit  v. t.  (past & past part. spat; pres. part. spitting)  
1.
To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth. "Thus spit I out my venom."
2.
To eject; to throw out; to belch. Note: Spitted was sometimes used as the preterit and the past participle. "He... shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on."


Spit  v. i.  (past & past part. spitted; pres. part. spitting)  To attend to a spit; to use a spit. (Obs.) "She's spitting in the kitchen."


Spit  v. i.  (past & past part. spat; pres. part. spitting)  
1.
To throw out saliva from the mouth.
2.
To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles. "It had been spitting with rain."
To spit on or To spit upon, to insult grossly; to treat with contempt. "Spitting upon all antiquity."





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"Spit" Quotes from Famous Books



... and what beasts! They made him sick, and filled him with admiration. He should like to be like that—to feel nothing; to see nothing; to loll up against the side and spit about, and make bad jokes, a minute before he took the life of a brother man. That was fine: that was manhood. One day, please God, he would ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant
... fear of your enemies carry away your judgment. Example after me; meet your enemies with sword and pistol, and settle the matter as becomes gentlemen. Honestly, friend Tickler, I hold it better a man shut his ears to the sayings of his enemies, for if they spit him to-day, the praises of his ...
— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"
... peace, some of them even going so far as to throw a few stones and level the culverins. On the whole, they were not very anxious to fight. Meanwhile, the master-of-camp was so near them that they could have spit on him. All the Spaniards had already disembarked, and stood at an arquebuse-shot from the master-of-camp. The latter was so anxious to win over those Moros and gain their confidence, because they exhibited fear, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair
... victim with a scalpel; and, finding that life has departed, commences to pluck it, and perform the usual post-mortem abdominal examinations attendant upon such occasions. Mr. Rapp undertakes to manufacture an extempore spit, from the rather dilapidated umbrella of the new Scotch pupil, which he has heedlessly left in the dissecting-room. This being completed, with the assistance of some wire from the ribs of an old skeleton that had hung in a corner of the room ever since it was built, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, December 4, 1841 • Various
... to spit that eel of a rector," said I, "or he will bear a slap in the face. And you must see ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill


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