Spit
Definitions
- The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.
- A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
- Abbreviation of spam over Internet telephony.
- Saliva, especially when expectorated.
- The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
- A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.
- An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
- Likeness; used, usually in set phrases (see spitting image) of a person who exactly resembles someone else.
- Synonym of slam (“card game”).
Conjugation
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Equivalents
Examples
“They roaſt a fowl, by running a piece of wood through it, by way of ſpit, and holding it over a briſk fire, until the feathers are burnt of, when it is ready for eating, in their taſte.”
“An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive⟳ you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give⟳ you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return⟳.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: [...]”
“When the joint to be roasted is thicker at one end⟳ than the other, place⟳ the spit⟳ slanting, so that the whole time the thickest part is nearest the fire, and also the thinnest by this means is preserved from being overmuch roasted.”
“The spits upon which the double⟳ sections of fish⟳ are transfixed are iron⟳ rods about 7 feet long, provided with an L-shaped handle⟳ at one end⟳, so that when hung on a bracket at either side of the fireplace it may be turned by hand.”
“Sand-spits are unfinished beaches, and long tongues or points of land⟳, formed of sand and shingle, by the transporting action of currents and the waves. In Coldspring harbor, a sand-spit extends from the west shore, obliquely, nearly across. [...] The materials are transported by the currents and waves, and deposited to form⟳ this spit⟳.”
“Or perhaps he may see⟳ a group of washerwomen relieved, on a spit⟳ of shingle, against the blue sea, [...]”
“Chiao Shih, 44 feet high, lies about 1/2 mile southeastward of Ko-li, a 199-foot islet, that lies close⟳ off the south end⟳ of Pei-kan-t’ang Tao and is connected to it by a stoney spit⟳.”
“Playa margins are dominated by relict shoreline features, such as wave-cut terraces, depositional beach ridges, and offshore bars and spits.”
“There was spit⟳ all over the washbasin.”
“Sometimes your body doesn't make⟳ as much spit⟳ as it needs. When you sleep⟳, your salivary glands take⟳ a bit of a snooze too. You're still making spit⟳, but not as much. This is why your mouth feels dry when you wake⟳ up.”
“[T]hey marked their truce by each of them, Aesir and Vanir alike, one by one spitting into a vat. As their spit⟳ mingled, so was their agreement made binding.”
“It was early winter in the southern continent, a season of rain⟳ and winds and mud, and indeed coals in a nearby brazier hissed with a few spits of rain⟳.”
“[…] according to some of the elders of the village, young Philip was the “very spit⟳” of his father, as they once remembered him […]”
“Lots of people claimed she was the image of her father (about the same number⟳ who saw⟳ her as the dead spit⟳ of her mother), which was a little disconcerting.”
“They [the potatoes] ſtood till October, when they were taken up, and a large pye made of them; which is laying them up in a heap, and covering them with ſtraw and a ſpit of earth.”
“The firſt plantation, containing four thouſand ſix hundred oaks, was formed on part of the ancient Home Park⟳, ſurrounding this Caſtle: the ſoil was dug one full ſpit, and the turf inverted; [...]”
“Soil of the usual depth may be trenched two spit⟳ (spadeful) deep; and if this is done every third year, it is evident that the surface which has produced three crops will rest⟳ for the next three years; thus giving a much better chance of constantly producing healthy and luxuriant crops, and with one half the manure that would otherwise be requisite.”
“Proceed as for the single dig⟳ but start⟳ by removing two spits of topsoil to the far diagonal corner and also one spit⟳ of subsoil. Turn⟳ the exposed subsoil from hole two into hole one. Incorporate organic matter⟳.”
“Dig⟳ your clay with a ſpade in ſpits of ordinary bricks; dig⟳ two, three, eight, ten or twenty loads of clay, more or leſs as you pleaſe; [...] then take⟳ theſe ſpits of clay, after they are tried in the ſun, ſurround your pile of wood with them, [...]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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