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verb

Pit v. t. (past & past part. pitted; pres. part. pitting)

To place or put into a pit or hole. "They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave."

To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.

To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.

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Etymology of 'Pitting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pitting" Quotes from Famous Books

... they grow cold. Remove the little bag of stones which you have boiled with the syrup. The object in boiling the stones with the syrup is to impart the fine flavor to the fruit which cherries are robbed of in pitting. ...

— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

... require labor and tools they did not have, to clear the whole of the saucer. They could be sure only of its size and shape, and the fact that its walls were of an unknown substance which the sea could cloak but not erode. For the length of gray surface showed not the slightest pitting or time wear. ...

— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... one of the young men, flicking a particle of dust from his silken riding jacket. "We shall then have freedom from the constant war of opposing factions. If General Castro and Governor Pico are not calling Juntas in which to denounce each other, a Carillo is pitting his ambition against an Alvarado. The Gringos will rule us lightly and bring us peace. They will not disturb our grants, and will give us ...

— The Splendid Idle Forties - Stories of Old California • Gertrude Atherton

... to change from an open filigree to a solid opaque body of infinitely larger shape and importance. The boughs cast green shades, which hurt the complexion of the girls who walked there; and a fringe of them which overhung Mr. Melbury's garden dripped on his seed-plots when it rained, pitting their surface all over as with pock-marks, till Melbury declared that gardens in such a place were no good at all. The two trees that had creaked all the winter left off creaking, the whir of the night-jar, however, forming ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... and, secondly, in reference to the eruption, part of which will die away at once, and the remainder will by the fifth day be filled with the opaque yellowish fluid, then dry up, becoming hard and horny, and falling off will leave a mottled red appearance of the skin, and now and then slight pitting. ...

— The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease. • Thomas Bull, M.D.

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