dial. (chiefly Sc.) [? f. TIT v.1] A sharp or sudden pull; a tug, jerk, twitch.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 1915. Yr þat tre war tite pulled oute At a titte with al þe rotes oboute.
1581. Satir. Poems Reform., xliii. 75. Sa Fortoun mountit neuer man sa hie,… Bot with ane tit sho turnis the quheill.
1827. Kinloch, Ballad Bk., 63. He gied the tow a clever tit That brocht her out at the lum.
1881. Paul, Aberdeen., 111. The craetur’ gied a tit, an’ afore I kent fat I was about, I was lyin’ o’ the braid o’ my back.
