• a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
• lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
• a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry'' is `stone Pit''"
• a trap in the form of a concealed hole
• a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a Pit to bury the body"
• the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
• a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
• remove the Pits from; "Pit plums and cherries"
• set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "Pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
• mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"

'Pit' in other languages