English Dictionary: Pitted | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for Pitted | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pit \Pit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pitting}.] 1. To place or put into a pit or hole. They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave. --T. Grander. 2. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox. 3. To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Pitted \Pit"ted\ (-t[ecr]d), a. 1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See {Pit}, v. t., 2. 2. (Bot.) Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue. |