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open-pit
[ oh-puhn-pit ]
adjective
, Mining.
- noting or pertaining to a type of surface mining in which massive, usually metallic mineral deposits are removed by cutting benches in the walls of a broad, deep funnel-shaped excavation.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of open-pit1
First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences
We descend an open pit, three or four fathoms deep, forming the courtyard.
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The cableway is so economical in its working that it has greatly advanced the process of "open-pit" mining.
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In the centre the companion ladder plunged down sheerly like an open pit.
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Here's the old glory-hole (an open pit, not a shaft), an' nobody's been here!
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Smoothed out, and covered with rags, they are taken to an open pit at the foot of a Calvary.
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