spit

verb12

1. •
   to send something wet or some food out of the mouth with a short, hard breath

   • And they spit upon him [Jesus Christ], and tooke the reed, and smote him on the head. — 1611
2. •
   To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
3. •
   To utter (something) violently.

   • "Why, you little emasculated Don Juan— You—" he spat an unmentionable name— "d'you think I'd fight one of your tin-soldier farces with you? Clear out!" — 1915
4. •
   (slang) To rap, to utter.

   • A group of black guys were spitting rhymes in the corner, slapping hands and egging one another on. — 2005
5. •
   To rain or snow slightly.

   • "There! now, Strickland, I know all about what you intend to say, and therefore need not be told; but see, it spits with rain, 'tis late, Graham's turned in, let's below; […] — 1830
6. •
   To make a spitting sound, like an angry cat.
7. •
   To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.

   • Fried or roast mice, spitted on sticks like kebabs, are often offered for sale by the roadside. — 1991
8. •
   (slang, humorous) (in the form spitting) To spit facts; to tell the truth.

   • He's spitting for sure.
9. •
   To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.

   • She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen.
10. •
    (dialect) To dig (something) using a spade; also, to turn (the soil) using a plough.
11. •
    (dialect) To dig, to spade.

    • Then the ground is "spitted" or spaded in about six or eight inches deep, as a garden is for a crop of vegetables. — 1882
12. •
    (dialect) To plant (something) using a spade.

    • When the [peach] seed is procured it is either "spitted in" with a spade or planted in rows in the nursery. — 1882

noun8

1. •
   Saliva, especially when expectorated.

   • There was spit all over the washbasin.
2. •
   A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.

   • They roast a fowl, by running a piece of wood through it, by way of spit, and holding it over a brisk fire, until the feathers are burnt of, when it is ready for eating, in their taste. — 1793
3. •
   A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.

   • Or perhaps he may see a group of washerwomen relieved, on a spit of shingle, against the blue sea, [...] — 1874
4. •
   (informal) Likeness; used, usually in set phrases (see spitting image) of a person who exactly resembles someone else.

   • […] according to some of the elders of the village, young Philip was the “very spit” of his father, as they once remembered him […] — 1840
5. •
   An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.

   • It was early winter in the southern continent, a season of rain and winds and mud, and indeed coals in a nearby brazier hissed with a few spits of rain. — 2015
6. •
   The depth to which the blade of a spade goes into the soil when it is used for digging; a layer of soil of the depth of a spade's blade.

   • They [the potatoes] stood till October, when they were taken up, and a large pye made of them; which is laying them up in a heap, and covering them with straw and a spit of earth. — 1791
7. •
   The amount of soil that a spade holds; a spadeful.
8. •
   Synonym of slam (“card game”).

noun1

1. •
   (Internet) Abbreviation of spam over Internet telephony.