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claypit

noun

Etymology

From clay + pit.

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

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of clay pit.

    • After a preliminary survey had been made during 1909, it was decided to construct a narrow-gauge railway from the claypits to a point adjacent to the G.W.R. main line between Ivybridge and Bittaford.
    • As the couple cared for the deeply traumatised nine-year-old, their son, Ian, went to Brick Ponds, an expanse of semi-wild parkland and lakes on the site of an old claypit used for brickmaking.

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