kit
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views updated Jun 11 2018kit1 / kit/ • n. a set of articles or equipment needed for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit. ∎ a set of all the parts needed to assemble something: an aircraft kit. ∎ Brit. the clothing and other items belonging to a soldier or used in an activity such as a sport: boys in football kit. kit2 • n. the young of certain animals, such as the beaver, fox, ferret, and mink. ∎ informal term for kitten.kit3 • n. hist. a small violin, esp. one used by a dancing master.
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
Kit
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views updated Jun 27 2018Kit
the items forming a soldier’s equipment; ‘articles of kit’, 1785; a number, set, lot, or contents of a vessel, hence, a soldier’s or traveller’s or workman’s kit—Gepp; a person’s baggage or a collection of anything—Slang Dictionary, 1874.
Examples: kit of pigeons, 1880; of tools, 1881.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
kit
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views updated May 23 2018kit2 (arch.) small fiddle. XVI. perh. deduced from the first syll. of L.
cithara, Gr.
kithárā CITHER.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
kit
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views updated May 11 2018kit1 circular wooden hooped vessel XIV; soldier's necessaries packed in a knapsack; outfit; set, lot XVIII. — MDu.
kitte (Du.
kit tankard), of unkn. orig.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD
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views updated May 11 2018kit. Pocket fiddle, about 16″ in length, used by dancing masters in the 18th and early 19th cents.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE
