"instrument for removing stones from cherries and other fruit," by 1868, from pit (n.2).
"hard seed," 1841, from Dutch pit "kernel, seed, marrow," from Middle Dutch pitte, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *pithan-, source of pith (q.v.).
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