chalkpit
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit.
From The Story of the Amulet by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
Eastward of the Factory appears Chomfuku, the village of Jim Potter, with a tree-clad sink, compared by old voyagers with "the large chalkpit on Portsdown Hill," and still much affected by picnickers.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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