How to pronounce“spit”in English
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Definitions of “spit”
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.”
A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.
“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.”
To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
“to spit a loin of veal”
To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
“She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.”
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