bittur
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[edit]Noun
[edit]bittur (plural bitturs)
- Obsolete form of bittern.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For as a Bittur in the Eagles claw, / That may not hope by flight to scape aliue, / Still waites for death with dread and trembling aw; / So he now subiect to the victours law, / Did not once moue […]