Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a produce exchange, that part of the exchange where wheat is bought and sold.
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Examples
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Overnight, Mrs. Charlton Denyse (wife of an erstwhile Charley Dennis who had made his pile in the wheat-pit) was a busy person.
Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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No, sir; this Mason (of whom you speak) or our own American Bierstadt -- if you were to put them down in a wheat-pit to-morrow, they would show their mettle.
The Wrecker 1898
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Think of facing death by famine every winter, by drought or cyclone every summer, and by open war or secret scalp-raid every month in the year; and then say that the racking nerve-strain of the commuter's time-table, the deadly clash of the wheat-pit, or the rasping grind of office-hours, would be ruinous to the uncivilized nervous system.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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