Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The grave.
- noun A small hollow or pit; especially, a pit left by a pustule of smallpox.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A pit; a pockmark.
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Examples
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Now being left on the bank like that, and in full sight of the goodly heaven, I wrestled hard with my flesh and blood, about going down into the pit-hole.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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There was just room between the fringe of reed and the belt of rock around it, for a man going very carefully to escape that horrible pit-hole.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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“Then all I know is this,” cried Jerry, running up to him, and desperately clutching at his riding coat; “the very night dear father was put into the pit-hole — oh, hoo, oh, hoo, oh, hoo!”
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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By the vague light proceeding from it he saw a pit-hole occupying the entire width of the gangway, and apparently of great depth.
Derrick Sterling A Story of the Mines Kirk Monroe
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The carriage-springs were tested by an occasional drop of the wheels into a pit-hole, on merging from which you came sometimes to a hundred yards of rut of dimensions similar to those of military approaches to a citadel; nevertheless, I enjoyed my drive excessively.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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And his body long time lay without the ministry of the funeral rites, unburied, and mangled by the birds of prey; and at length was it dragged by the feet into a pit-hole, and covered with turf; and they who judge according to outward show esteemed this man most miserable and unfortunate.
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The mother allowed the fancy to remain; she thought it wrong and horrible that a child's first idea of death should be "putting into the pit-hole."
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"I should like to _see_ him put in the pit-hole," Georgey remarked, after a pause.
Lady Audley's Secret 1875
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"Then all I know is this," cried Jerry, running up to him, and desperately clutching at his riding coat; "the very night dear father was put into the pit-hole -- oh, hoo, oh, hoo, oh, hoo!"
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Now being left on the bank like that, and in full sight of the goodly heaven, I wrestled hard with my flesh and blood, about going down into the pit-hole.
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