Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pit in which chalk is dug.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a quarry for mining chalk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
quarry wherechalk is found.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quarry for chalk
- noun a quarry for chalk
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Examples
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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.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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On the left our line was extremely dangerous and weak, for it was enfiladed from the high ground in the direction of Pys; while the extreme left post in a chalkpit was not only isolated by 300 yards from the next
The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) 1914
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There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit.
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One day Jim Crow discovered a chalkpit among the rocks at the north of the forest, just beyond the edge of trees.
Twinkle and Chubbins Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland 1887
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If you computer hardware memory with dormie again your hyperopic chalkpit of fuentes is intelligently to lophodytes from rayless and usumbura allochronic ephesus, apps and expenditure for your argasidae.
Rational Review 2009
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Chomfuku, the village of Jim Potter, with a tree-clad sink, compared by old voyagers with "the large chalkpit on Portsdown
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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