bitt v Cp OED ~ v 'to coil or fasten (a cable) upon the bitts' [of a vessel]. Phr bitt up: to tighten, esp to fasten mooring lines to an object in order to warp a vessel.
   T 172/5-65 We chopped grump heads enough and got the moorin's up, and bitt 'em up on the island o' ice, and start warpin', warped tight. T 187/9-65 When the breeze was over, that one down there had a notch cut in her spar, foremast, so big around as my arm, where they had the chain come in through the hawse-pipe and bitt up around her foremast.

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