nitter

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English

Etymology

From nit +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Homophone: knitter

Noun

nitter (plural nitters)

  1. (zoology, archaic) A louse that deposits nits on horses.
    Synonym: (dialectal) horse-bee
    • 1809, Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence Relative to Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, and Natural History, volume 12, page 124:
      [The bots] were hatched, into (what is called in the country) a horse-bee or nitter.
    • 1826, Amos Eaton, Zoological Text-book Comprising Cuvier's Four Grand Divisions of Animals, page 226:
      The last three species are the nitters so well known in this country; particularly the leg and throat nitters. It is the received opinion that the nits on the legs of horses, are taken into the mouth of the horse, conveyed into the intestines, and at length become the bot larva.
    • 1835, The Genesee Farmer, page 90:
      If the "throat nitter" (Œ veterinus) is the true bot however, […] it must be evident that the remedy proposed […] is at least doubtful […]

References

Anagrams

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Adjective

nitter

  1. low

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