Definition of Pittering

1. Verb. (present participle of pitter) ¹

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Definition of Pittering

1. pitter [v] - See also: pitter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pittering

pitta bread
pittacal
pittance
pittance payment
pittances
pittas
pitted
pitted-shelled turtle
pitted keratolysis
pitted tubeshoulder
pitted tubeshoulders
pitten
pitter
pitter-patter
pittered
pittering
pitters
pittie
pitties
pitting
pitting corrosion
pitting oedema
pittings
pittite
pittites
pittle
pittle-pattle
pittled
pittles
pittling

Literary usage of Pittering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden,: With Memoirs of His Life, by John Leyden, James Morton (1819)
"The pittering grasshopper occurs in " Oberon's Diet," a poem quoted in Poole's English Parnassus, 1677, p. 336. " A little mushroom table spread, ..."

2. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden,: With Memoirs of His Life, by John Leyden, James Morton (1819)
"But all the while his eye was serv'd, We cannot think his ear was starv'd, But that there was in place to stir His ears the pittering grasshopper. ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Pit. The only word in common talk for a mine. So, a miner is always 'pitman' or 'pittie,' and pit dress is 'pit-claes.' Pittering ..."

4. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"Herrick finely describes by the term pittering the peculiar shrill and short cry of the grasshopper: the cry of the grasshopper, is pit! pit! pit! quickly ..."

5. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... When bursting seed-bells crackle in the sun, And pittering grasshoppers, confus'dhy shrill, Pipe giddily along time glowing hill: Sweet grasshopper, ..."

6. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden,: With Memoirs of His Life, by John Leyden, James Morton (1819)
"The pittering grasshopper occurs in " Oberon's Diet," a poem quoted in Poole's English Parnassus, 1677, p. 336. " A little mushroom table spread, ..."

7. The Poetical Remains of the Late Dr. John Leyden,: With Memoirs of His Life, by John Leyden, James Morton (1819)
"But all the while his eye was serv'd, We cannot think his ear was starv'd, But that there was in place to stir His ears the pittering grasshopper. ..."

8. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Pit. The only word in common talk for a mine. So, a miner is always 'pitman' or 'pittie,' and pit dress is 'pit-claes.' Pittering ..."

9. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"Herrick finely describes by the term pittering the peculiar shrill and short cry of the grasshopper: the cry of the grasshopper, is pit! pit! pit! quickly ..."

10. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"... When bursting seed-bells crackle in the sun, And pittering grasshoppers, confus'dhy shrill, Pipe giddily along time glowing hill: Sweet grasshopper, ..."

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