noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A pit dug for charring wood, for example to make charcoal or to destroy a treestump.

Verb

1. 1
   To burn by means of a charpit. transitive

Etymology

char + pit

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