1874 Morning Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 14 Apr. Dried fruit still comes forward liberally, and our former quotations are well sustained, both for apples in sacks and kegs and pitless plums.

1905 W. S. Harwood New Creations in Plant Life xvi. 275 When his new pitless plum and the pitless prune..are once upon the market, the death-knell of present-day plums and prunes of their class will have been sounded.

1932 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 7 Oct. 21/5 O. H. Jacobson..is perfecting the development of a pitless prune.

2003 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 30 Oct. Seedless grapes, stoneless cherries, pipless apples, pitless olives and furless kiwifruit.

1895 Daily News 11 Nov. 6/4 The reconstructed and no longer pit-less Opera Comique.

1903 Daily Chron. 19 Dec. 5/2 The projectors of new and pitless playhouses.

1953 Bot. Gaz. 114 255 In mature cells..the pits may measure five to ten times or more their original size... The pitless area of the wall may occupy the greater part of the surface.

1985 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 15 Apr. vi. 1/1 This show..has been designed for the tiny, pitless Center Theater in Long Beach.

1994 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 84 133/2 The improvement in pumping facilities, for example, from the early pit-less and deep well projects to the current practices of center pivot irrigation, has had a dramatic impact on the geography of the Great Plains.

1996 Dallas Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 Jan. 2 d Economists forecast state output to grow..slightly less than the rate last year... Growth last year, however, was not along a pitless path.