babbit

Nonstandard spelling of babbitt.

Noun

  1. Nonstandard spelling of babbitt.
    • What is babbit metal? Why, it is an alloy composed of copper, tin and antimony. The quantities of each used vary with the toughness or hardness of the metal desired; and if my memory serves me right, this allow was...
    • The materials used in the manufacture of the coin were silver and babbit metal. - 1890, Dickerman's United States Treasury Counterfeit Detector, A Notorious Counterfeiter, page 19:
    • To pack the box, first insert next to the ring I a ring of round asbestos packing, then the smallest set of babbit metal rings; then insert alternately two coils of asbestos and the next smallest babbit ring, and so on,...

Forms

babbits

Verb

  1. Nonstandard spelling of babbitt.
    • The caps for these journal-boxes or bearings may be Babbited by this same jig, and they would, of course, exactly conform to the other portions of the bearings in the frame. […] This drilling jig is a negative of the...
    • […] a T mandrel centering in the cylinder or recess bored in the head of the frame or bed being used to babbit the main shaft boxes, this mandrel being provided with collars properly located so as to establish the...
    • Crosshead pin boxes cannot be babbited in place, so it is obviously best to babbit the boxes on a mandrel of cast iron and of such shape that when ready to use it will resemble part of the crank disk with the pin in...

Forms

babbits babbiting babbited