bittur

English

Noun

bittur (plural bitturs)

  1. Obsolete form of bittern.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
      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 […]

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