lime pit

British  

noun

1. (in tanning) a pit containing lime in which hides are placed to remove the hair

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Example Sentences

One of the best stories, “Good Monks,” makes use of a local landmark: an abandoned lime pit — desolate, lurid, ruined — known as the “Lost Planet.”

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2018

"I see the lime pit has been filled in."

From Time Magazine Archive

He says there’s many a young man that was hanged and now moldering in a lime pit that would be glad to rise up and dance the Irish dance.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

Ebed-melech hastened to the king and spoke: "Know, if Jeremiah perishes in the lime pit, Jerusalem will surely be captured."

From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Radin, Paul

Perhaps in a stone quarry; or lime pit.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Holcroft, Thomas