Spit

Quick meaning: Spit is a noun meaning A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.

Meaning

A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.

More Meanings

1. (geography) A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.
2. (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
3. (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
4. (ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
5. (ambitransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
6. (impersonal) To rain or snow slightly.
7. (ambitransitive) To utter (something) violently.

Example Sentences

Or perhaps he may see a group of washerwomen relieved, on a spit of shingle, against the blue sea, [...]

Playa margins are dominated by relict shoreline features, such as wave-cut terraces, depositional beach ridges, and offshore bars and spits.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• spits
• spitting
• spitted

Synonyms for spit

Depending on context, synonyms include broach, expectorate, expectoration, spittle, slam, delve.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include skewer, sprinkle, spatter, spittle, ptyalize, spew.

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