borrow pit

American

noun

Civil Engineering.

a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.

borrow pit British

noun

civil engineering an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere

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Etymology

Origin of borrow pit

First recorded in 1890–95

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