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stone pit

noun
  1. a less common name for quarry 1
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Historical Examples of stone pit

  • In the night they took Harrison's money and 'tumbled me down a stone-pit.'

    Historical Mysteries

    Andrew Lang

  • It was found in the process of enlarging a stone-pit in the parish of Castle Bytham.