Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
borrow pit ExamplesWord Origin noun Civil Engineering.
- a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location.
Origin of borrow pit First recorded in 1890–95 Examples from the Web for borrow-pit Historical Examples of borrow-pit
The borrow-pit must be carefully located—convenient of access, far enough from the track not to be a danger spot to it.
Edward Hungerford
Bigmouth buffalo were rare, and were taken only in quiet parts of larger streams, and in the borrow-pit at Station 6-S.
Fishes of the Big Blue River Basin, Kansas
W. L. Minckley
British Dictionary definitions for borrow-pit borrow pit noun
- civil engineering an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere