Definition of pit

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

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Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household..
Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) The Privy Council room at Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.
Spitted :: Spitscocked (a.) Spitchcocked.
Pituitous :: Pituitous (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, pituite or mucus; full of mucus; discharging mucus..
Epithite :: Epithite (n.) A lazy, worthless fellow; a vagrant..
Ill-timed :: Ill-timed (a.) Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time..
Spitous :: Spitful (n.) A spadeful.
Perseus :: Perseus (n.) A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Danae, who slew the Gorgon Medusa..
Merciful :: Merciful (a.) Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.
Underpight :: Underpight () imp. of Underpitch.
Bicipitous :: Bicipitous (a.) Having two heads; bicipital.
Clef :: Clef (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
Sandpit :: Sandpit (n.) A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
Flatten :: Flatten (a.) To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch.
Epitome :: Epitome (n.) A compact or condensed representation of anything.
Link :: Link (n.) A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like..
Polypite :: Polypite (n.) One of the feeding zooids, or polyps, of a coral, hydroid, or siphonophore; a hydranth. See Illust. of Campanularian..
Conjunction :: Conjunction (n.) The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupiter and Saturn. See the Note under Aspect, n., 6..
For :: For (prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc..
Pitted :: Pitted (a.) Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2..
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