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Pitter
(gcide) | Pitter \Pit"ter\, n.
A contrivance for removing the pits from peaches, plums, and
other stone fruit.
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Pitter
(gcide) | Pitter \Pit"ter\, v. i.
To make a pattering sound; to murmur; as, pittering streams.
[Obs.] --R. Greene.
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pitter-patter
(encz) | pitter-patter,cupitání n: Zdeněk Brožpitter-patter,cupot n: Zdeněk Brož |
spitter
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Pitter-patter
(gcide) | Pitter-patter \Pit"ter-pat`ter\, n.
A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a
pattering of words.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]Pitter-patter \Pit"ter-pat`ter\, adv.
With, or with the sound of, alternating light beats; as, his
heart went pitter-patter.
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spitter
(gcide) | spitball \spit"ball`\, spit ball \spit" ball`\, n.
1. Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a
missile; -- a childish prank.
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2. (Baseball) A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher
grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side
(which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on
the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the
fingers with the least possible friction; -- also called
spitter. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball
darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended
sidewise it darts down and out. The use of such a pitch is
against the rules of professional baseball. [Cant] --
Spit baller.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]Spitter \Spit"ter\, n. [See Spit to eject from the mouth.]
One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
[1913 Webster]Spitter \Spit"ter\, n. [See Spit an iron prong.]
1. One who puts meat on a spit.
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2. (Zool.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or
become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
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Spitter
(gcide) | spitball \spit"ball`\, spit ball \spit" ball`\, n.
1. Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a
missile; -- a childish prank.
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2. (Baseball) A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher
grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side
(which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on
the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the
fingers with the least possible friction; -- also called
spitter. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball
darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended
sidewise it darts down and out. The use of such a pitch is
against the rules of professional baseball. [Cant] --
Spit baller.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]Spitter \Spit"ter\, n. [See Spit to eject from the mouth.]
One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
[1913 Webster]Spitter \Spit"ter\, n. [See Spit an iron prong.]
1. One who puts meat on a spit.
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2. (Zool.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or
become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
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pitter-patter
(wn) | pitter-patter
adv 1: as of footsteps; "he came running pit-a-pat down the
hall" [syn: pit-a-pat, pitty-patty, pitty-pat,
pitter-patter]
2: describing a rhythmic beating; "his heart went pit-a-pat"
[syn: pit-a-pat, pitty-patty, pitty-pat, {pitter-
patter}]
n 1: a series of rapid tapping sounds; "she missed the pitter-
patter of little feet around the house"
v 1: rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are
slick" [syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter,
pitter-patter]
2: make light, rapid and repeated sounds; "gently pattering
rain" [syn: patter, pitter-patter] |
spitter
(wn) | spitter
n 1: a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)
[syn: spitter, expectorator]
2: an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or
Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he
throws it [syn: spitball, spitter] |
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