Chalkpit

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A pit in which chalk is dug.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a quarry for mining chalk.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a quarry where chalk is found.
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  • noun. a quarry for chalk
  • noun. a quarry for chalk
  • Word Usage
    "Factory appears Chomfuku, the village of Jim Potter, with a tree-clad sink, compared by old voyagers with “the large chalkpit on Portsdown Hill,” and still much affected by picnickers."
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    pit  quarry  stone pit  
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