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The bitter end is the very end of a line such as the non looped end of a dock line or the end of the anchor rode away from the anchor.
I'm sure there is a better reason for it being called "the bitter end" but in the USCG Auxillary class I took in 1970, they said that if you were to let it go it could be "the bitter end" for you.
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