kit Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a case for containing a set of articles
  2. noun gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose
    outfit.
  3. noun young of any of various fur-bearing animals
    • a fox kit
  4. verb supply with a set of articles or tools
    kit up; kit out.

WordNet

Kit transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect Kitte
Definitions
  1. To cut. Obs. Chaucer.
Kit noun
Etymology
Gf. AS. cytere harp, L. cithara. Cf. Guitar.
Definitions
  1. A small violin. "A dancing master's kit." Grew.
    Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Dickens.
Kit masculine
Etymology
Cf. D. kit a large bottle, OD. kitte beaker, decanter.
Definitions
  1. A large bottle.
  2. A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright.
  3. straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.
  4. A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.
  5. A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them. now: the whole kit and kaboodle

Webster 1913