stone pit
noun
a less common name for quarry 1
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How to use stone pit in a sentence
He was confined at the bottom of a tight stone pit, and a heavy, poisonous gas was slowly poured into it.
Pharaoh's Broker | Ellsworth DouglassOnce on Agsk, he was placed in a specially made stone pit, surrounded by guards, and fed through the only opening.
The Eel | Miriam Allen DeFordOver there a stone pit; faces grown like the faces of beasts, a picked-up rabble of assassins.
Current History, A Monthly Magazine | New York TimesMaurice stoked up, jamming huge birch logs into the cavernous stone pit till it roared and throbbed like a giant engine.
The Law of the North (Originally published as Empery) | Samuel Alexander WhiteIt was found in the process of enlarging a stone-pit in the parish of Castle Bytham.
Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places | Frederick William Fairholt
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