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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.
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Origin of borrow pit

First recorded in 1890–95
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Historical Examples

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

    The Modern Railroad

    Edward Hungerford

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

British Dictionary definitions for borrow-pit

borrow pit

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