bitt

A noun referring to a strong post on a wharf, quay, or ship used for attaching mooring lines.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa un poste o columna resistente situado en un muelle, embarcadero o barco, empleado para amarrar o sujetar los cabos de amarre.

1. Mooring post C1 formal

   A strong, vertical post on a ship, wharf, or quay used for securing mooring lines or cables.

   • The sailor wrapped the rope around the bitt on the dock.
   • The ship's crew secured the mooring line to the bitt.
   • Heavy bitts are essential for holding large vessels in place.

   🇪🇸Poste de amarre

   Sinónimos: bollard

verbo irregular

An archaic or obsolete verb meaning to bite or to seize with the teeth; also used as a past tense form of 'bite' in older English.

• 🇪🇸Verbo arcaico que significa morder o agarrar con los dientes; también se usaba como forma de pasado del verbo 'bite' en inglés antiguo.

1. Secure with a bitt C2 formal

   To fasten or secure a mooring line around a bitt (a strong post on a ship, wharf, or quay).

   • The sailor bitted the rope to the dock.
   • He carefully bitted the mooring line to the post.
   • They bitted the ship's cable to the quay.

   🇪🇸Amarrar a una bita