Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A peach-stone; the hard covering inclosing the kernel of the fruit.
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Examples
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"If you have 40 tons of fruit a season, that's 80,000 pounds, that's hundreds of thousands of peach pits," said Mrs. Sullivan, who is planning to replace the black slate floor in the mudroom she says it shows everything with a peach-pit floor.
A Peach of a Place Sarah Tilton 2011
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Perhaps I could end up like the little old lady who lived in a pumpkin, or a peach-pit, or something.
Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Perhaps I could end up like the little old lady who lived in a pumpkin, or a peach-pit, or something.
Snug as a Bug in a Beautiful Box Heather McDougal 2007
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As the two halves fell apart a pink, cloud-like haze came pouring from the golden peach-pit, almost filling the big room, and from the haze a form took shape and settled beside them.
The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917
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The others were all busy congratulating Ozma, who was very happy at being released from the confinement of the golden peach-pit, where the magician had placed her with the notion that she never could be found or liberated.
The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917
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Of course this surprised him, but so many things in the Land of Oz were surprising that he did not give much thought to the golden peach-pit.
The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917
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"What's this?" asked the Wizard, picking up the peach-pit and examining it closely.
The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917
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Button-Bright was about to throw this peach-pit away when he noticed that it was of pure gold. gold.
The Lost Princess of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1917
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What is marvelous? what is unlikely? what is impossible or baseless or vagueafter you have once just opend the space of a peach-pit, and given audience to far and near, and to the sunset, and had all things enter with electric swiftness, softly and duly, without confusion or jostling or jam?
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As the two halves fell apart a pink, cloud-like haze came pouring from the golden peach-pit, almost filling the big room, and from the haze a form took shape and settled beside them.
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