Pit

What “Pit” means

Noun

1. A hole in the ground.
2. An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
3. The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
4. A mine.
5. A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.

Verb

1. To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
2. To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
3. To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
4. To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.

Noun

1. A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
2. The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.

Verb

1. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *puti Old English pytt Middle English pit English pit From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.

From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþō. Compare pith.

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