verb

• (transitive) To line (something) with babbitt metal to reduce friction.
  "The main bearings were babbitted and line-bored."

noun

• (US, dated) Alternative letter-case form of Babbitt (“a person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals”).
  "One speaks of a babbitt habit, a babbitt era. Nothing is more true. America recognized itself in Babbitt, it demurred, but it also admired."

noun

• (US, dated) A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals.
  "A Babbitt met a Bromide on the avenue one day. They held a conversation in their own peculiar way."

noun

• (dated) Alternative letter-case form of babbitt (“a soft white alloy of variable composition (for example, nine parts of tin to one of copper, or fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction”).
  "Figure 2 represents a top plan of the "Babbitting" jig, placed in or upon a cast-iron frame, preparatory to the pouring or casting of the "Babbitt" or other soft metal on to or around its journals, to form journal bearings in said cast-iron frame."