four-bit
- a word derived from four bits.
Example Sentences
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And again: "I can hit a four-bit piece nine times out of ten."
From Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California with Other Sketches; To Which Is Added the Story of His Attempted Assassination by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of the State by Field, Stephen Johnson
They dropped four-bit pieces on the dusty road, and riding up to them at full speed clutched them from the ground in some mysterious way that was perfectly wonderful.
From A Summer in a Canyon by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
I've heard tell uh this four-bit mind reading an' forecastin' your horrorscope fer a dime; but I never met up with it before.
From The Trail of the White Mule by Bower, B. M.
Peets gives this saddle-tinted longhorn a four-bit piece, an' he tells this yarn.
From How The Raven Died 1902, From "Wolfville Nights" by Lewis, Alfred Henry
Well, sir, that fellow jawed over that four-bit shirt for half an hour.
From Tales of the Road by Crewdson, Charles N. (Charles Newman)
