spit
suomi-englanti sanakirjaspit englannista suomeksi
sylki
sylkeminen
niemenkärki, niemi, kynnäs
varrastaa
syljeskellä, sylkeä
sähähtää
varras
tihuttaa
Substantiivi
spit englanniksi
A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
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(quote-journal)|year=1793|volume=X|page=509|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078847251&view=1up&seq=523|oclc=901376714|passage=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.
(quote-book) In Two Volumes|location=Dublin|publisher=Printed for Messrs. R. Cross,(nb...)|year=1793|volume=I|page=192|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035532293&view=1up&seq=213|oclc=1003870295|passage=An Engliſh family in the country, ... would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: ...
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Bagster the Elder|Samuel Bagster,(nb...), by J. Moyes,(nb...)|year=1817|oclc=606082028|passage=When the joint to be roasted is thicker at one end than the other, place the spit slanting, so that the whole time the thickest part is nearest the fire, and also the thinnest by this means is preserved from being overmuch roasted.
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(quote-book)|year=1843|volume_plain=part I (Comprising the Geology of the First Geological District)|page=28|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFZcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA28|oclc=642659056|passage=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.
(RQ:Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque)
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(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
To use a spit to cook; to to food that is cooking on a spit.
(RQ:Puritan)
(senseid) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Otway Venice Preserv'd) pray vvhat Beast vvill your VVorship pleaſe to be next? / ''Anto''''nio''. Novv I'l be a Senator agen, and thy Lover little ''Nicky Nacky''! ''He ſits by her.'' Ah toad, toad, toad, toad! ſpit in my Face a little, ''Nacky''—ſpit in my Face prithee, ſpit in my Face, never ſo little: (..)
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To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
(quote-book) Rik Hoskin|chapter=6|title=Hell’s Maw|series=Outlanders|seriesvolume=73|location=Don Mills, Ont.|publisher=Gold Eagle Books, Worldwide Library|month=May|year=2015|page=73|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ys9vBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA73|isbn=978-0-373-63886-4|passage=The wag zigzagged across the field, bumping over ruts in the soil and tangled grass as a stream of bullets followed them from the high-mounted railguns, spitting sparks from the metal sides of the wag.
(RQ:Dickens Sketches by Boz)
(quote-book))|editor=Bradford Torrey|title=The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal|location=Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.|publisher=Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin and Company|date=24 December 1851|year_published=1906|volume=III (September 16, 1851 – April 30, 1852)|page=153|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/writingsofhenryd09thorrich/page/153/mode/1up|oclc=84133896|passage=It spits snow this afternoon. Saw a flock of snowbirds on the Walden road. I see them so commonly when it is beginning to snow that I am inclined to regard them as a sign of a snow-storm.
To rap, to utter.
(RQ:Noire Thug-A-Licious)
{{quote-text|en|year=2021|author=Jehnie I. Burns|title=Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation|page=138
Saliva, especially when expectorated.
An instance of 2|spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
(senseid) A person who exactly resembles someone else (usually in set phrases; see (m)).
{{quote-text|en|year=1840|title=The Court Magazine & Monthly Critic and Lady's Magazine|page=405
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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.
(quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son,(nb...); and sold by Messrs. Dodsley|James Dodsley,(nb...)|date=10 January 1791|volume=IX|page=42|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433110030891&view=1up&seq=68|oclc=1015453113|passage=They 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.
(quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=Printed by T. Spilsbury and Son,(nb...); and sold by Messrs. Dodsley|James Dodsley,(nb...)|date=1 January 1792|volume=X|page=4|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433110030909&view=1up&seq=32|oclc=1015453113|passage=The firſt plantation, containing four thouſand ſix hundred oaks, was formed on part of the ancient Home Park, ſurrounding this Caſtle: the ſoil was dug one full ſpit, and the turf inverted; ...
(quote-book)|year=1832|volume=X|page=545|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQ0bAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA545|column=1|oclc=38367204|passage=Soil of the usual depth may be trenched two spit (spadeful) deep; and if this is done every third year, it is evident that the surface which has produced three crops will rest for the next three years; thus giving a much better chance of constantly producing healthy and luxuriant crops, and with one half the manure that would otherwise be requisite.
(quote-journal)|month=March|year=1795|year_published=1801|volume=I|section=part III (Transactions, &c.)|page=235|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=OggTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA235|oclc=519802182|passage=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, ...
To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
(quote-book)|edition=2nd corrected and improved|location=London|publisher=Printed for R. Baldwin,(nb...)|year=1769|column=2|oclc=723457287|passage=The double plough, by taking faſt hold of the mould, throws all back again; and if the vegetables are not effectually earthed up, which may be the caſe after double ſpitting the intervals, then running the double plough over again, completes the buſineſs, and ſtrangely toſſes about and mellows the mould.
To plant (something) using a spade.
(quote-journal)|month=May|year=1882|volume=2|issue=2|page=124|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112112405334&view=1up&seq=530|oclc=5764181|passage=When the peach seed is procured it is either "spitted in" with a spade or planted in rows in the nursery.
To dig, to spade.
(quote-journal)|newspaper=Chronicle|The London Chronicle: Or, Universal Evening Post|location=London|publisher=Sold by J. Wilkie,(nb...)|start_date=2 September 1758|date=5 September 1758|volume=IV|issue=263|page=219|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014656485&view=1up&seq=227|column=1|oclc=37438463|passage=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; ...
(quote-journal)|month=May|year=1882|volume=2|issue=2|page=124|pageurl=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112112405334&view=1up&seq=530|oclc=5764181|passage=Then the ground is "spitted" or spaded in about six or eight inches deep, as a garden is for a crop of vegetables.
A skewer.
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