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pit

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.

Etymology:

From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-Germanic *putjaz, from Latin puteus, from Proto-Indo-European *pewǝ-. Cognate with West Frisian pet, Saterland Frisian Put, Dutch put, German Pfütze, Danish pyt, Icelandic pyttur.
From Dutch pit, from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan ), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþō. Compare pith.
Shortening.
From Old Occitan, from Latin pectus, from Proto-Italic *pektos, from Proto-Indo-European *peg. Compare Italian petto, Portuguese peito, Romanian piept, Spanish pecho.
Forrowed from English pit.
From Old Irish pit, possibly related to putte, Latin puteus.
From Dutch fiets.

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Additional definitions for 'pit':

pit	A hole in the ground.
pit	An area at a motor racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
pit	A section of the marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to march, such as the tam tam. Also, the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
pit	A mine.
pit	A trading pit.
pit	Something particularly unpleasant.
pit	The bottom part of.
pit	Armpit, oxter.
pit	A luggage hold.
pit	A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
pit	The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
pit	The grave, or underworld.
pit	An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
pit	Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
pit	Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
pit	To make pits in.
pit	To put (a dog) into a pit for fighting.
pit	To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
pit	To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
pit	A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
pit	A shell in a drupe containing a seed.
pit	To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
pit	road, path, way
pit	breast
pit	A seed inside a fruit.
pit	burner (on a stove)
pit	spirit, vigour
pit	vulva
pit	vagina
pit	rafsi of plita.
pit	to put
pit	female external genitalia, vulva
pit	cunt, pussy

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