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Definition of Chalk pit
1. Noun. A quarry for chalk.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalk Pit
Literary usage of Chalk pit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1898)
"And there is no imaginable counterbalancing advantage iu their sites, from the
Chalk-pit standpoint. Passing from the sites to the structure of these three ..."
2. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"Lyttelton, when scarcely thirty-six, breathed his last at a country house near
Epsom, called Pit Place, from its situation in a chalk pit, ..."
3. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1839)
"Chalk-pit Close; Fits between Hinten, and the road to Gog- го agog Hills; ...
Suffolk ; In a chalk-pit near Sicklesmere, and at Little Saxham: Sir TG ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"For two weeks the instrument from the Pan chalk pit was mounted in my observatory,
where a plastered brick wall took the place of the natural chalk face. ..."
5. The Amulet, Or Christian and Literary Remembrancer by Samuel Carter Hall (1827)
"THE CHALK-PIT. A true Story. BY HISS MITFORD. ONE of the most admirable persons
whom I have ever known, is my friend Mrs. Mansfield, the wife of the good ..."
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