spitting
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
Verb
spitting
- present participle of spit
Noun
spitting (plural spittings)
- (chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration
- 1837, James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31 (page 44)
- Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers.
- 1837, James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31 (page 44)
- (uncountable) An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.
- Synonym: sprouting
Anagrams
- pittings