Cyclone pit | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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Cyclone
·add. ·noun A tornado. ·see above, and Tornado. II. Cyclone ·noun A violent storm, often of vast ex...

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cyclone
See typhoon. ...

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Pit
·noun ·see Pit of the stomach (below). II. Pit ·vt To place or put into a pit or hole. III. Pit ·n...

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Pit
A hole in the ground (Ex. 21:33, 34), a cistern for water (Gen. 37:24; Jer. 14:3), a vault (41:9), a...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
pit
1) A watch fob. He drew a rare thimble from the swell's pit. He took a handsome watch from the gentl...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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.
pit
In the dockyards. See saw-pit. ...

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Pit
[Hell] ...

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Cyclone cellar
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Cyclone pit. ...

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Pit-hole
·noun A pit; a pockmark. ...

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bottomless pit
The monosyllable. ...

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ash-pit
A receptacle for ashes before the fire-bars in a steamer, or under them in most fire-places. ...

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pit-pan
A flat-bottomed, trough-like canoe, used in the Spanish Main and in the West Indies. ...

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pit-powder
That made with charcoal which has been burned in pits, not in cylinders. ...

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rifle-pit
Cover hastily thrown up by one or two skirmishers, but contributing, when a line of them is joined t...

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pit-a-pat
The palpitation of the heart: as, my heart went pit-a-pat. Pintledy-pantledy; the same. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose