This was done, and then several wedges were driven in, and using the backs of single bitted axes, the section of tree was soon split open.
So bitted as to enable the cable to be nipped or rendered with ease.
There are two sorts of axes in general use among the lumbermen; but the double-bitted axe (131 A) appears to be the most popular among lumberjacks.
My readers, however, are not lumberjacks but campers, and a double-bitted axe is a nuisance around camps.
The editor sat back in his chair, and the two furrows which deepened upon either side of his hard-bitted mouth answered for a smile.
This time the hard-bitted smile broke into a laugh.
In all these years we've been dickering together you've always been a hard-bitted and consistent fighter for your own hand.
Then, timidly, urged by their comrades' jeers, the two wranglers whom I invited brought me a saddle and bridle and I bittedhim and held him while they saddled.
On the way down he stopped at the warehouse and selected a new double-bitted ax which he handed to Dirty Dan.
In the sun-light above and gas-light below human industry was plying its differently- bitted implements.
The same art is exercised on the light smooth snaffle, held in tenacious grasp, that causes the heavily-bitted charger to dance and "passage" in the school.
Beside the donkey stood a neat tier of firewood; in the chopping block, where the donkey-fireman had driven it prior to abandoning his post to view the contest between Bryce and Jules Rondeau, was a double-bitted axe.
And all of this under the protection of a double-bitted axe, one eye on her and the other on his enemies.
All in the province of Rio Grande are great horsemen, and all use silver trappings on a black horse, and all have horses bitted so as to turn round in the air, just as a hawk turns on the wing.
Many teams, bitted and trained by professionals and only driven in the park by their owners, require almost no use of the thong; and as a result many drivers of four horses can hardly put up a thong, let alone use it with any success.
With a well-bitted horse, you should be able to make figure eights by moving the left hand as directed without touching the reins with the right hand at all.
With a nicelybitted pair, the turn to the left and the turn to the right may be made by turning the hand as directed in the same chapter.
It may be said, indeed, that an owner is and remains partially ignorant and incompetent, until he has watched and bitted and driven, day after day, an equine problem of his own.
When starting two new horses it is as well to do so with the couplings level and bitted cheek all round.
If a horse is found to be pulling or boring, he should be differently bitted at once, as every horse must be well under control.
Though mother pulled on the reins as hard as she could, Prince did not slow up, for he was a strong-bitted horse and did not mind mother's pulling.
He will not run away, but he is very strong-bitted and will have his own way sometimes.
Grooved, double-bitted stone axes similar to those collected by Doctor Hrdlička from the Middle Yukon region have since become known also from stations farther south in Alaska.
Three single-grooved, double-bitted stone axes were collected from various points on the Yukon River.
The striking thing about the presence of the double-bitted ax among archeological finds from central Alaska is that we do not find it represented in such numbers anywhere until it again reappears in the Atlantic seaboard States.
Ruby, Alaska, and is practically identical with the double-bitted but single-grooved stone ax from Tanana.
Although they found it impossible to approach the still blazing ruins of the main camp, they discovered among the smouldering, charred timbers of Holcomb's cabin the blade of a double-bitted axe, its helve burned off.
Ah, a tender mouth was bitted and bridled at last!
What I needed was a good stout hickory shirt--a pair of overalls and double-bitted axe.
Sidenote: Bitting] Much of what seems to be vice in a horse comes from his having been imperfectly bitted when young, or from subsequently having his mouth roughly handled.
Sometimes a woman will experience great inconvenience from not having her horses properly bitted and harnessed.
She was a daughter of a tribe bitted and bridled to silent endurance; of a people girthed and saddled through the centuries to the uncomplaining bearing of their burdens.
This is a point which is very frequently neglected by inexperienced drivers, and few coachmen really understand it, so that you must learn it yourself and see that your coachman has your horses properly bitted and coupled.
The latter were quietly eating, with saddles on their backs and bridles thrown on their necks, ready to be bitted and mounted at the shortest warning.
Tom horse was a big, broad-hoofed brute, hard-bitted and not at all enthusiastic about his prospective trip.
Kids have to be trained, and you are as hard bitted as Buster," answered John.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bitted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
