What is to shoot out; to sprout. I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer called?
chit — To shoot out; to sprout. I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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