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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)