(Dutch, pit, a kernel.) The kernel or nut of fruit; as, a cherry-pit. Peculiar to New York.
You put an apple seed or a peach-pit into the ground, and it springs up into the form of a miniature tree.--Prof. Bush on the Resurrection.
TO PIT
A pit is the area in which cocks fight; hence, 'to pit one against another,' to place them in the same pit, one against the other, for a contest; to put or place as a match.--Richardson.
A gentleman came into our office, from Colton, and deliberately pitted that town against the county for tall grass.--Ogdensburgh Sentinel.