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kit (kit)

noun

  1. Brit., Dialectal a small wooden tub or bucket for holding fish, butter, etc.
    1. personal equipment, esp. as packed for travel
    2. a set of tools or implements
    3. equipment for some particular activity, sport, etc. a first-aid kit, a salesman's kit
    4. a set containing a number of parts to be assembled a model airplane kit
  2. a box, bag, or other container for carrying such parts, equipment, or tools
  3. Informal lot; collection: now chiefly in ☆ the whole kit and caboodle, everybody or everything

Etymology: ME kyt < MDu kitte, container made of hooped staves

transitive verb kitted kit′ted, kitting kit′ting

Chiefly Brit. to provide with what is needed for a given task or situation; equip: usually with out or up
kit2 definition

kit (kit)

noun

kit3 definition

kit (kit)

noun

a tiny fiddle used by 16th- through 18th-cent. dancing masters

Etymology: Early ModE: abbrev. < ? cithara

Kit definition

Kit (kit)

noun

  1. a masculine name
  2. a feminine name

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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