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stone pit

noun

  1. See quarry
    a less common name for quarry 1


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He was confined at the bottom of a tight stone pit, and a heavy, poisonous gas was slowly poured into it.

Once on Agsk, he was placed in a specially made stone pit, surrounded by guards, and fed through the only opening.

Over there a stone pit; faces grown like the faces of beasts, a picked-up rabble of assassins.

Maurice stoked up, jamming huge birch logs into the cavernous stone pit till it roared and throbbed like a giant engine.

It was found in the process of enlarging a stone-pit in the parish of Castle Bytham.

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