1. A children’s game that consists in throwing cherry-stones into a small pit or hole; originally the hole itself.
1522. World & Child, in Hazl., Dodsl., I. 246. I can play at the cherry-pit.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., III. iv. 129. Tis not for grauity to play at cherrie-pit with sathan.
1632. Randolph, Jealous Lovers, II. iii. Your cheeks were sunk so low and hollow, they might serve the boys For cherripits.
1658. Ford, Witch of Edmonton, III. i. I have lov’d a witch ever since I played at cherrypit.
2. U.S. dial. A cherry-stone.
