subs. (originally provincial; now common).—A distance of very undecided length. If a North countryman be asked the distance to a place, he will most probably reply, ‘a mile and a BITTOCK.’ The latter may be considered any distance from one hundred yards to ten miles. Also of time.

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  1802.  J. WILSON (‘Congleton’) M.S. Let. to F. Boucher. BITTOCK, a small piece or small bit; Cheshire.

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  1816.  SCOTT, Old Mortality. To Chamwood, madam? It’s unco late, and it’s sax miles an’ a BITTOCK down the water.

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  1884.  Daily News, April 15, 4, 7. Edinburgh University is three hundred years and a BITTOCK.

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