(pit) noun
1. A natural or artificial cavity in the ground, especially when relatively wide and deep.
2. A pitfall for snaring animals; snare.
3. An abyss so deep that one cannot return from it, as the grave.
4. Hell.
5. Great distress or trouble.
6. The main floor of the auditorium of a theater, especially, in Great Britain, that portion under the first balcony; also, that part of the audience occupying this portion of the theater. Compare ORCHESTRA, PARQUET.
7. An enclosed space in which animals trained for combat are pitted against each other.
8. Any natural cavity or depression in the body: the armpit, the pit of the stomach.
9. An indention like that made by a smallpox pustule; any slight depression or excavation.
10. A thin spot in the cell walls of some plants.
11. That part of the floor of an exchange where a special line of trading is done: the wheat pit.
12. A mining excavation, or the shaft of a mine.
—v. pit·ted, pit·ting v.t.
1. To mark with dents, pits, or hollows.
2. To put, bury, or store in a pit.
3. To match as antagonists; set in opposition.
—v.i.
4. To become marked with pits. [OE pytt <L puteus a well]

(pit) noun
The kernel of certain fruits, as the plum.
—v.t. pit·ted, pit·ting To remove pits from, as fruits. [<Du. <MDu. pitte kernel, pith. Akin to PITH.]