babbitt

4 definitions found

babbitt - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Babbitt \Bab"bitt\, v. t.
     To line with Babbitt metal.
     [1913 Webster]

babbitt - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  babbitt
      n 1: an alloy of tin with some copper and antimony; a lining for
           bearings that reduces friction [syn: Babbitt metal,
           babbitt]
      v 1: line with a Babbitt metal

babbitt - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Babbitt, MN (city, FIPS 3106)
    Location: 47.64511 N, 91.94006 W
    Population (1990): 1562 (817 housing units)
    Area: 273.7 sq km (land), 2.8 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 55706

babbitt - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "Babbitt":
     Middle American, Philistine, anal character, arriviste, boeotian,
     boob, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, churl, clown,
     compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist,
     epicier, formalist, groundling, guttersnipe, hooligan,
     ill-bred fellow, looby, lout, low fellow, methodologist,
     middle-class type, middlebrow, model child, mucker, nouveau riche,
     organization man, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, perfectionist,
     plastic person, precisian, precisianist, ribald, rough, roughneck,
     rowdy, ruffian, sheep, square, teenybopper, trimmer, upstart,
     vulgarian, vulgarist, yes-man, yokel