BITTER END


Meaning of BITTER END in English

[bitter end] n [prob. fr.

[2]bitter end] (1849): the last extremity however painful or calamitous -- bit.ter-end.er n

[2]bitter end n [bitter (a turn of cable around the bitts)] (ca. 1862): the inboard end of a ship's anchoring cable

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