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• PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)

PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of See also:

• LAT

Lat. puteus, well, formed from See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)  , a See also:

• TERM

term of wide application for a hole, cavity or excavation in the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth or othersurface; thus it is applied to the excavations made in the ground for the purpose of extracting minerals, e.g. See also:

• CHALK

chalk, See also:

• GRAVEL, or PEBBLE BEDS

gravel or See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand, or for carrying on some See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry, e.g. tan-See also:

• PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)

pit, saw-pit, or to the See also:

• GROUP

group of shafts which See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form a See also:

• COAL

coal-mine . Roots and other vegetables can be stored in the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter in a pit, and the term is thus transformed to a heap of such vegetables covered with earth or See also:

• STRAW

straw . The word is also used of any hollow or depression in a See also:

• SURFACE

surface, as in the See also:

• BODY

body, the See also:

• ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm-pit, the pit of the See also:

• STOMACH (Gr. vrbsaxos from arbga, a mouth)

stomach, or on the skin, as the scars See also:

• LEFT

left by small-pox or chicken-pox . As applied to a portion of a See also:

• BUILDING

building or construction, the word first appears for an enclosure, often sunk in the ground, in which See also:

• COCK, EDWARD (1805-1892)

cock-fighting was carried on, a " cock-pit." It would seem a transference of this usage that gave the See also:

• COMMON

common name to that See also:

• PART

part of the auditorium of a See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre which is on the See also:

• FLOOR (from O. Eng. flor, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine)

floor, the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French See also:

• PARTERRE

parterre . In the See also:

• UNITED

United States a See also:

• SPECIAL

special usage is that of its application to that part of the floor space in an See also:

• EXCHANGE

exchange where a particular See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of business is transacted; thus in the See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

Board of See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

Trade, transactions in the See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain trade are carried on in what is known as the " See also:

• WHEAT
• WHEAT (Triticum)

Wheat Pit." In Scottish legal See also:

• HISTORY

history there was a baronial See also:

• PRIVILEGE

privilege which in Latin is termed furca et fossa, " See also:

• FORK (Lat. furca)

fork (i.e. gallows) and pit "; here the term has usually been taken to refer to the drowning-pit, in which See also:

• WOMEN

women criminals were put to See also:

• DEATH

death; others take it to refer to an See also:

• ORDEAL (O.Eng. ordal, ordael, judgment)

ordeal pit . There is a parallel phrase in M . Dutch, putte ends galghen; here putte is the pit in which women were buried alive as a See also:

• PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty .