sandpit

[sand-pit]

noun

a deep pit in sandy soil from which sand is excavated.

Origin of sandpit

First recorded in 1520–30; sand + pit¹

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Examples from the Web for sandpit

Historical Examples of sandpit

In a sandpit on the coast of Bering Island, his condition was hopeless.
Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait
Peter Lauridsen
While wading across, I suddenly sank to my waist in a sandpit.
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
He had killed twenty, and hidden them in a sandpit, when discovered by his master.
Wild Animals I Have Known
Ernest Thompson Seton
One day they had the good fortune to find in the sandpit a strange creature.
The Story of the Amulet
E. Nesbit
He must have found the car in the sandpit and seen my tracks in the wood opposite.
Greenmantle
John Buchan

British Dictionary definitions for sandpit

sandpit

noun

a shallow pit or container holding sand for children to play in
a pit from which sand is extracted

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