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borrow pit en · NOUN
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A pit that is dug to extract material (such as soil, gravel, or sand) for use at another location.
No borrow pit excavation was necessary, and 41,000 cu. yd. were removed from cuttings by excavating machines.
1944 November and December, “Increasing G.W.R. Line Capacity”, in Railway Magazine, page 367:Material for the embankments—about 300,000 cu. yd. of it—has been obtained from a borrow pit alongside the Nottingham-Grantham road.
1960 May 14, “Colliery Branch Construction in Nottinghamshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:
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