riding bitt

1. 1.

   one of the large bitts used to secure the cable of a dropped anchor

   Broaderbollard

   Part ofship

Questions about riding bitt

What does riding bitt mean?

riding bitt means "one of the large bitts used to secure the cable of a dropped anchor".

Is riding bitt a common word?

riding bitt is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.