cherry pit
English
Noun
cherry pit (plural cherry pits)
- The stone of a cherry.
- (games, obsolete) A children's game in which players attempt to knock marbles into a hole without losing their taw in the same hole.
- c. 1601–1602, Shakespeare, William, Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 4:
- What, man! 'tis not for / gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang / him, foul collier!
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Translations
stone of a cherry
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