pit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large hole in the ground.

   They dug a deep pit to plant the tree.

2. 2
   noun

   The area beside a racetrack where cars stop for fuel and repairs during a race.

   The driver came into the pit to change his tyres.

3. 3
   noun

   A place where stone or coal is dug out of the ground; a mine or quarry.

   His grandfather worked in the coal pit for forty years.

4. 4
   verb

   To remove the hard seed from a fruit.

   You need to pit the cherries before making the pie.

From Dutch pit (“kernel, core”), from Middle Dutch pitte, from Proto-Germanic *pittan (compare dialectal German Pfitze (“pimple”)), oblique of Proto-Germanic *piþō. Compare pith.

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