kit
kit is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A large bottle.
- 2.A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright.
- 3.straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
- 4.A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.
- 5.A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is kit.
- What is a wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright called?
- What is straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell called?
- What is a box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like called?
- What is a group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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