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holds the seed, the scar, and the texture nobody asked for.
means Marked with small holes or hollows, or having had the stone removed from a fruit — depending on which sense you reach for.
from From 'pit,' an old Germanic-rooted word: Old English 'pytt,' meaning a hole or hollow in the ground, possibly borrowed early from Latin 'puteus' (a well or pit). The fruit-stone sense arrived later and separately, from Dutch 'pit,' the kernel or core. So 'pitted' carries two ancestries — one about the holes, one about the seed — which is fitting for a word that ended up meaning both.
- olive labor
- machines pit thousands of olives per minute now
- acne origin
- pitted scars form when collagen collapses inward
- dueling phrase
- "pitted against" comes from cockfighting and bear pits
- vinyl flaw
- pitted records skip where the groove gets gouged
- metal enemy
- pitting corrosion hides tiny holes deep in steel
cherry pitting machine — commercial food processing equipment that removes pits from cherries at rates up to 6,000 fruit per hour
pit lane racing — formula 1 and motorsport teams pit their cars during races for tire changes and fuel at circuits like monaco
pitted corrosion steel — surface degradation phenomenon where steel develops small holes from localized electrochemical attack in salt water environments