Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pitting"
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pitting
n : the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of
corrosion [syn: {roughness}, {indentation}]
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