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Definition of Borrow pit
1. Noun. A pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site.
Medical Definition of Borrow pit
1. Excavations created by the surface mining of rock, unconsolidated geologic deposits or soil to provide material (borrow) for fill elsewhere. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Borrow Pit
Literary usage of Borrow pit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Field and Office Methods for the Use of Students in Surveying by William David Pence, Milo Smith Ketchum (1901)
"Stake out a borrow pit and take notes required for calculation of ... (1) Select
a base line, preferably outside the limits of the proposed borrow pit, ..."
2. Manual of Surveying for Field and Office by Raymond Earl Davis (1915)
"It is extremely useful as a means of approximately checking areas determined by
more precise methods. PROBLEM 79. VOLUME or BORROW-PIT Object. ..."
3. Surveying Manual Designed for the Use of First-year Students in Surveying by Howard Chapin Ives (1914)
"VOLUME OF MATERIAL FROM A BORROW-PIT Problem. To compute the volumes for grading
a tract of land which has been cross-sectioned. Description. ..."
4. Technical Reports by Miami Conservancy District (Ohio) (1921)
"borrow pit Excavation at Englewood Dam. The borrow pit at Englewood lay
upstream (north) ... The depth of cut in the borrow pit varied from 15 to 20 ft., ..."
5. Report to the Board of Trustees, "commissioners of Waterworks" of Cincinnati by George Henry Benzenberg, Cincinnati (Ohio). Commissioners of Waterworks (1909)
"It was not long before it developed that the material in the borrow pit consisted
largely of a soapstone formation which required blasting to remove. ..."
6. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"These soils often contain moderately well developed argillic horizons that support
a greater abundance of perennial grasses. Stop 4: borrow pit on West Side ..."
7. Text Book on Railroad Surveying by George Wellington Pickels, Carroll Carson Wiley (1913)
"Borrow-pit stakes are set to indicate to the contractor the limits within which
he may borrow earth for making the fills. 14. The location of culverts and ..."
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