noun

• (geography) A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula.
  "Sand-spits are unfinished beaches, and long tongues or points of land, formed of sand and shingle, by the transporting action of currents and the waves. In Coldspring harbor, a sand-spit extends from the west shore, obliquely, nearly across. [...] The materials are transported by the currents and waves, and deposited to form this spit."

verb

• (transitive) To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object.
  "to spit a loin of veal"
• (transitive) To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit.
  "She’s spitting the roast in the kitchen."

verb

• (ambitransitive) To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc.
  "And they ſpit upon him [Jesus Christ], and tooke the reed, and ſmote him on the head."
• (ambitransitive) To emit or expel in a manner similar to evacuating saliva from the mouth.
  "a hot pan spitting droplets of fat"
• (impersonal) To rain or snow slightly.
  ""There! now, Strickland, I know all about what you intend to say, and therefore need not be told; but see, it spits with rain, 'tis late, Graham's turned in, let's below; […]"
• (ambitransitive) To utter (something) violently.
  ""Why, you little emasculated Don Juan— You—" he spat an unmentionable name— "d'you think I'd fight one of your tin-soldier farces with you? Clear out!""

noun

• (uncountable) Saliva, especially when expectorated.
  "There was spit all over the washbasin."
• (countable) An instance of spitting; specifically, a light fall of rain or snow.
  "It was early winter in the southern continent, a season of rain and winds and mud, and indeed coals in a nearby brazier hissed with a few spits of rain."
• (uncountable) Synonym of slam (“card game”).