A hole in the ground.
The meadow around the town is full of old pits.
An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
Two drivers have already gone into the pit this early in the race.
The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
[...] weapons "pits" (the plutonium components of nuclear weapons, named by analogy with the pit of a fruit such as a peach), [...].
Initialism of personal income tax.
To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
Exposure to acid rain pitted the metal.
To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
Abbreviation of Pittsburgh.
From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.
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One must pit a peach to make it ready for a pie.
To use the PIT maneuver, especially during a car chase.