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chalkpit en · NOUN

Etymology

From chalk + pit.

Meanings

1. A quarry where chalk is extracted.
   • I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a place in the wood I’d never seen before. And there was an old chalk-pit. 1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 7:
   • I tried the next uphill turning. It took about half an hour to get back to the road again from the chalkpit into which it led us. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 216:

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