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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

kit1 / kit/ • n. a set of articles or equipment needed for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit. ∎  a set of all the parts needed to assemble something: an aircraft kit. ∎ Brit. the clothing and other items belonging to a soldier or used in an activity such as a sport: boys in football kit. kit2 • n. the young of certain animals, such as the beaver, fox, ferret, and mink. ∎ informal term for kitten. kit3 • n. hist. a small violin, esp. one used by a dancing master.

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Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms | 1985 | Copyright

Kit

the items forming a soldier’s equipment; ‘articles of kit’, 1785; a number, set, lot, or contents of a vessel, hence, a soldier’s or traveller’s or workman’s kit—Gepp; a person’s baggage or a collection of anything—Slang Dictionary, 1874.

Examples: kit of pigeons, 1880; of tools, 1881.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

kit1 circular wooden hooped vessel XIV; soldier's necessaries packed in a knapsack; outfit; set, lot XVIII. — MDu. kitte (Du. kit tankard), of unkn. orig.
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Kit

A Dictionary of First Names | 2006 | | Copyright

Kit ♂, ♀ Pet form of Christopher; also of Katherine and its variants. In the medieval period it was a pet form of Christian and Christiana.
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

kit n.
1. a set of articles or equipment needed for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit.

2. Brit. the clothing and other items belonging to a soldier.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

kit2 (arch.) small fiddle. XVI. perh. deduced from the first syll. of L. cithara, Gr. kithárā CITHER.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | 1996 | | Copyright

kit. Pocket fiddle, about 16″ in length, used by dancing masters in the 18th and early 19th cents.
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KIT

A Dictionary of the Internet | 2001 | | Copyright

KIT Abbreviation for Keep In Touch used in CHAT ROOMS, EMAILS, and NEWSGROUPS.
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

kit •acquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, shit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, split, sprit, squit, submit, tit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit •albeit, howbeit •poet •bluet, cruet, intuit, suet, Yuit •Inuit • floruit • Jesuit •Babbitt, cohabit, habit, rabbet, rabbit •ambit, gambit •jackrabbit • barbet • Nesbit • rarebit •adhibit, exhibit, gibbet, inhibit, prohibit •titbit (US tidbit) • flibbertigibbet •Cobbett, gobbet, hobbit, obit, probit •orbit • Tobit •cubit, two-bit •hatchet, latchet, ratchet •Pritchett •crotchet, rochet

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