Apparently "grenade" comes "from French, alteration of Old French (pome) grenate (see pomegranate ), on the pattern of Spanish granada. The bomb was so named because of its shape, supposedly resembling a pomegranate."
Your memory is a bit faulty. "The Pit" was actually the very steep-walled remains of an old dredge-mining operation. In the late 19th century, big mining companies flooded large sections of land by building temporary dams, then floated dredging barges out and tore huge holes in the sediment in the Sacramento Valley floor. The dams had large sluicing operations to separate the alluvial gold that was liberated as a result of the dredging
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Them's were some pomegranates, I'll say.
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