pit
noun
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a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with itcolliery
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lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performersorchestra pit
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a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate“a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'”quarry
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a trap in the form of a concealed holepitfall
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(auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
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(commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
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an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
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(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evilinfernal regionperditionnether region
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a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)“they dug a pit to bury the body”cavity
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the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seedstone
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a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)fossa
verb
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remove the pits from“pit plums and cherries”stone
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set into opposition or rivalrymatchopposeplay off
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mark with a scarmark