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Main Entry: 1pit
Pronunciation: pit
Function: noun
Etymology: Old English pytt "pit, hole in the ground" 1: a hole, shaft, or cavity in the ground <a gravel pit> 2: an area set off from and often sunken below neighboring areas: as a: an enclosure where animals (as cocks) are set to fight b: the space occupied by an orchestra in a theater 3 a: a hollowed or indented area especially in the surface of the body <the pit of the stomach> b: an indented scar (as from a boil) 4plural: 3WORST 1 <it's the pits> 5: any of the areas alongside an auto racetrack used for servicing cars during a race -- often used in plural with the