lime pit
- (in tanning) a pit containing lime in which hides are placed to remove the hair
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Historical Examples of lime pit
Perhaps in a stone-quarry, or lime-pit; perhaps at the edge of waters.
A finer sort of parchment than the former, but prepared in the same manner, except that it is not passed through the lime-pit.