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borrow pit
noun
, Civil Engineering.
- a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
borrow pit
noun
- civil engineering an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
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Word History and Origins
Origin of borrow pit1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
The borrow-pit must be carefully located—convenient of access, far enough from the track not to be a danger spot to it.
From Project Gutenberg
Bigmouth buffalo were rare, and were taken only in quiet parts of larger streams, and in the borrow-pit at Station 6-S.
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It may be placed in a jhil, a paddy field, or a borrow pit by the railway line.
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