borrow pit

English

Noun

borrow pit (plural borrow pits)

  1. (construction, civil engineering) A pit that is dug to extract material (such as soil, gravel, or sand) for use at another location.
    • 1944 November and December, “Increasing G.W.R. Line Capacity”, in Railway Magazine, page 367:
      No borrow pit excavation was necessary, and 41,000 cu. yd. were removed from cuttings by excavating machines.
    • 1960 May, “Colliery Branch Construction in Nottinghamshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:
      Material for the embankments—about 300,000 cu. yd. of it—has been obtained from a borrow pit alongside the Nottingham-Grantham road.

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