Fitch
[fɪtʃ]
Definition
(n.) A vetch.
(n.) A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.
(n.) The European polecat; also, its fur.
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Definition
n. now vetch: (B.) Isa. xxviii. 25 black cummin (Nigella sativa): in Ezek. iv. 9 a kind of bearded wheat spelt.
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Examples
- Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Other prominent Frenchmen made encouraging experiments on small steamboats--followed in 1784-86 by James Rumsey and John Fitch in America in the same line. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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