Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

• spits
• spitting
• spitted
• spat
• spit

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