Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pitted"
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[e^]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pitted
adj : pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: {alveolate},
{faveolate}, {cavitied}, {honeycombed}]
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