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Pit bull is an umbrella term for several types of dog believed to have descended from bull and terriers. In the United States, the term is usually considered...

The PIT maneuver (precision immobilization technique) also known as TVI (tactical vehicle intervention) is a law enforcement pursuit tactic in which a...

through penalty (forcing the driver to travel the length of pit road at the speed limit). 2002 The Winston: Roush Racing's Jeff Burton made a pit stop on the...

become red-hot and start to move inwards, forcing him slowly toward the center of the room and into the pit. As he loses his last foothold and begins...

the 2020 season; this was found to consume more fuel than predicted, forcing pit stop and stint time rule changes. The Le Mans weekend originally had...

A burn pit is an area of a United States military base in which waste is disposed of by burning. According to the United States Army field manual, there...

traps; for example, a camouflaged pit into which a soldier might fall (it would then be a trou de loup). Sometimes a pit would be dug with punji sticks in...

gaping maw is lined with several rows of sharp teeth, inhabiting the Great Pit of Carkoon, a hollow in the sand of the desert planet Tatooine. After the...

or slam into each other. Taking place in an area called the mosh pit (or simply the pit), it is typically performed to aggressive styles of live music such...

Cesspit, cesspool and soak pit in some contexts are terms with various meanings: they are used to describe either an underground holding tank (sealed...

Portsmouth Mine Pit Lake, sometimes called the Portsmouth Pit, is the deepest lake completely within the state of Minnesota, USA. It has a depth of over...

compounded as Verstappen was held to give way to Norris who was in the pit lane for his own pit stop. Norris closed the gap and would make several overtake attempts...

qualifying, but he stalled his engine on the formation lap, forcing him to start from the pit lane. Pole position was left vacant, so Joshua Dürksen, in...

championships and hosted the popular WWF/WWE interview segment "Piper's Pit", which facilitated numerous kayfabe feuds. In 2005, Piper was inducted into...

Slave Pit Inc. is the artist collective, production company and independent record label created for releasing projects by the heavy metal band Gwar and...

action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent closures of pits that the government deemed "uneconomic" in the coal industry, which had been...

is termed "barrow pit" in the western United States (especially the Rocky Mountains). The localism—sometimes pronounced "borrer pit"—describes the ditch...

sometimes called a crash pit or runaway truck ramp A shock absorber, a device to dampen spring rebound by expending work by forcing a fluid through ports...

Orchard: Including the Management of Wall and Standard Fruit Trees, and the Forcing Pit; with Selected Lists and Synonymes of the Most Choice Varieties. W. S...

Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game first went on sale in 1904...