| 词汇 | pit |
| 词源 | pit. As the term for the stone of a fruit, pit isn’t of ancient ori- gin, as one would suppose. It is an Americanism that came into the language midway into the 19th century from the Dutch pit, meaning the same, though it may have been in New York State use long before this. |
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