Word.ws English Dictionary

bitt-pins

bitt-pins is the plural of bitt-pin.

Meaning of bitt-pin

Noun

bitt-pin (plural bitt-pins)

  1. A device like a belaying pin but of heavier scantlings; a turned length of wood or metal passed through the bitts or cross-piece, used to prevent the cable from slipping off or over the bitt-heads yet removable so as to facilitate doing so.

Questions about bitt-pins

What is bitt-pins the plural of?
Bitt-pins is the plural of bitt-pin.

Words near bitt-pins in the dictionary

  1. bitstrings
  2. bitsy
  3. bitt
  4. bitt-heads
  5. bitt-pin
  6. bitt-pins
  7. bitta
  8. bittacid
  9. bittacids
  10. bittacle
  11. bittacles

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bitt-pins (page history and authors); bitt-pin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bitt-pins.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bitt-pins. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.