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chalkpit

noun

Etymology

From chalk + pit.

  1. derived from puteus — “trench, pit, well”
  2. inherited from *puti✻
  3. inherited from pytt
  4. inherited from pit
  5. compounded as chalkpit — “chalk + pit”

Definitions

  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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA