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third-person singular simple present dits, present participle ditting, simple past and past participle ditted
(UK dialectal, Northern England) To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit). examples
(obsolete) To close up. quotations
that I would haue thought my sincere plainnesse in that first part vpon that subiect, should haue ditted the mouth of the most enuious Momus
1599, James VI and I, Basilikon Doron
plural dits
(obsolete, rare) A ditty, a little melody. quotations
No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit: / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
(obsolete) A word; a decree.
The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code. examples
(information theory) decimal digit examples
not comparable
(Canada, obsolete) Indicator of a declared surname originating from Canadian French.