1894 Brewer’s / K / Kit. (Anglo-Saxon, kette, a cist or box [of tools].)
Hence that which contains the necessaries, tools, etc., of a workman.
A soldier’s kit. His outfit.
The whole kit of them. The whole lot. (See above.) Used contemptuously.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.