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stone pit

noun

  1. a less common name for quarry 1
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Patrón Tequila’s new limited edition Gran Smoky is a good example, made by roasting Weber blue agave hearts or “piñas” over mesquite in stone pits and crushing them with stone tools.

Sefia stood at the edge of the stone pit, still reeling from the touch of Archer’s arms on her arms, his chest on her chest.

"They are precious; dinosaur footprints are great records from nature, not just stone pits."

For a moment she was weightless in the dark, the sides of the hot stone pit burning her arms.

The path led through a stone pit sparsely grown with oak trees and alders.

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