pit
/pɪt/
A hole in the ground; An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race; A mine
- plural
- pits
Meanings
- 1
A hole in the ground
He who digs a pit for others, falls into it himself.
Tatoeba · Adelpa · CC BY 2.0 FR
He fell into a pit.
Tatoeba · CarpeLanam · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race
- 3
A mine
- 4
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 placedrare
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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 measurementrare
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A trading pitrare
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An armpitrare
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A luggage holdrare
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A small surface hole or depression, a fossarare
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The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpoxrare