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pit
(Dutch, pit, a kernel.) The kernel or nut of fruit; as, a cherry-pit. Peculiar to New York. You put...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
1) A watch fob. He drew a rare thimble from the swell's pit. He took a handsome watch from the gentleman's fob.
2) To lay pit and boxes into one; an operation in midwifery or copulation, whereby the division between the anus and vagina is cut through, broken, and demolished: a simile borrowed from the playhouse, when, for the benefit of some favourite player, the pit and boxes are laid together. The pit is also the hole under the gallows, where poor rogues unable to pay the fees are buried.
(Dutch, pit, a kernel.) The kernel or nut of fruit; as, a cherry-pit. Peculiar to New York. You put...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.