Bitt pulled back one of the chairs and sat down.

The one that's supposed to go over the bitt.

He held a safety line belayed around the bitt at his feet.

"That's fine, Bitt, but what are the rest of us going to drink?"

"Actually, they belong to a person named Bitt, who's standing in that group right over there."

Understandably, Bitt and his friends seemed hesitant to sit down.

The grain left over is called the slop, or the bitt.

In the second step, the rope is tied to the bitt, as shown.

"Hull, the rhythm's changed," Bitt said, looking up at the lights.

One of the females with Bitt looked stricken.

John lashed his tiller and carried the line forward where he made it fast to the bitt.

My father climbed overboard with a line tied to the bow windlass bitt.

She smiled at Bitt, who responded with a self-conscious, sheepish sort of grin.

"You're serious," Bitt said with something like wonder.

He slacked the starboard sheet and took several more turns around the port bitt.

The taxi man dropped a short noose over a bitt, turned his wheel a little and climbed on the stage.

He then paid it out on a line which he made fast to the bitt on the bow.

One man I noticed fetch up, head on and square on, with the starboard bitt.

And Pencroft showed a rope which fastened the cable to the bitt itself.

"I'm being towed by a fish and I'm the towing bitt.

"But he isn't wearing his insigne," Bitt said weakly.

"Are you waiting for something, Bitt?"

He rose from his seat, and, turning to face Bitt and his companions, stood by the table, waiting calmly.

Bitt roared, not bothering to look at Wiggin.

"You took them from me, slag," Bitt spat.