SPIT

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “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.”

2. isim A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.

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

3. fiil To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.

   “to spit a loin of veal”

4. fiil To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.

   “She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.”

5. fiil To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.

   “And they ſpit upon him [Jesus Christ], and tooke the reed, and ſmote him on the head.”

6. fiil To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.

   “a hot pan spitting droplets of fat”

7. fiil To rain or snow slightly.

   “"There! now, Strickland, I know all about what you intend to say, and therefore need not be told; but see, it spits with rain, 'tis late, Graham's turned in, let's below; […]”

8. fiil To utter (something) violently.

   “"Why, you little emasculated Don Juan— You—" he spat an unmentionable name— "d'you think I'd fight one of your tin-soldier farces with you? Clear out!"”

9. fiil To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
10. fiil To rap, to utter.

    “A group of black guys were spitting rhymes in the corner, slapping hands and egging one another on.”

11. fiil (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.

    “He's spitting for sure.”

12. isim Saliva, especially when expectorated.

    “There was spit all over the washbasin.”

13. isim An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.

    “It was early winter in the southern continent, a season of rain and winds and mud, and indeed coals in a nearby brazier hissed with a few spits of rain.”

14. isim Likeness; used, usually in set phrases (see spitting image) of a person who exactly resembles someone else.

    “[…] according to some of the elders of the village, young Philip was the “very spit” of his father, as they once remembered him […]”

15. isim Synonym of slam (“card game”).
16. isim The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.

    “They [the potatoes] ſtood till October, when they were taken up, and a large pye made of them; which is laying them up in a heap, and covering them with ſtraw and a ſpit of earth.”

17. isim The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.

    “Dig your clay with a ſpade in ſpits of ordinary bricks; dig two, three, eight, ten or twenty loads of clay, more or leſs as you pleaſe; [...] then take theſe ſpits of clay, after they are tried in the ſun, ſurround your pile of wood with them, [...]”

18. fiil To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
19. fiil To plant (something) using a spade.

    “When the [peach] seed is procured it is either "spitted in" with a spade or planted in rows in the nursery.”

20. fiil To dig, to spade.

    “We left the ground, of field of loam, by ſuppoſition under two ſorts of managements; the one part very rough, and the other made as fine as circumſtances would allow; the former ploughed the uſual depth, the other double ſpitted; [...]”

21. isim Abbreviation of spam over Internet telephony.