Bitter \Bit"ter\, n. [See Bitts.]
(Naut.)
AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
[1913 Webster]
Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts,
and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
[1913 Webster]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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36 Moby Thesaurus words for "bitter end":
Thule, Ultima Thule, bottom dollar, boundary, butt, butt end,
catastrophe, climax, completion, conclusion, consummation,
culmination, denouement, end, end result, extreme, extremity,
fag end, farthest bound, final result, finale, jumping-off place,
last act, limit, nib, payoff, point, pole, stub, stump, tag,
tag end, tail, tail end, termination, tip
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Bitter \Bit"ter\, n. [See Bitts.]
(Naut.)
AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
Bitter end, that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts,
and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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