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

Moments later, he trudged across the lime pit where he had done hard labor and picked up a hammer and chisel to pound a rock into shards.

From Los Angeles Times

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

The wounds were ghastly: deep sabre cuts to the head and arms, a nose nearly cut off, one man driven into a lime pit and burned, “a piece the size of a half crown clean off the head” of another.

From The Guardian

Two pages later, she’s told something ghastlier: Any infants born from these forced liaisons were hastily baptized, then strangled and thrown in a lime pit in the cellar underneath the convent.

From Slate

The trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard how Beadman did a Google search for "lime pit" hours after dumping Kayleigh's body in a hedgerow.

From BBC