Definition of Pit

Pit

A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado.

A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.

A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.

A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.

Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.

A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.

A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body

The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.

See Pit of the stomach (below).

The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.

Formerly, that part of a theater, 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 theater.

An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.

The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.

A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.

To place or put into a pit or hole.

To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.

To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Mae West

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.
Sarah Palin

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm

A punk concert isn't fun without a pit.
Billie Joe Armstrong

I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
Dave Barry

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
Thom Yorke

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
Denis Diderot

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous.
Jackie Stewart

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.
Mahalia Jackson