borrow pit

noun

, Civil Engineering.

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

borrow pit

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of borrow pit¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The borrow-pit must be carefully located—convenient of access, far enough from the track not to be a danger spot to it.

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Bigmouth buffalo were rare, and were taken only in quiet parts of larger streams, and in the borrow-pit at Station 6-S.

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It may be placed in a jhil, a paddy field, or a borrow pit by the railway line.

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