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Definition of Gravel pit
1. Noun. A quarry for gravel.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gravel Pit
Literary usage of Gravel pit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1836)
"For twenty-eight years, he has been minister of New Gravel-pit Chapel, Hackney.
At the united request of this Society, as we learn from the following ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith (1871)
"A gravel pit and a road to it were allotted by commissioners under an ... The land
allotted for the road and gravel pit was entirely surrounded by old ..."
3. Scientific Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley (1893)
"THOUGHTS IN A GRAVEL-PIT/ LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, we may of course think of ...
We all know a gravel-pit when we see one; but we do not all know what we see. ..."
4. Walks and Talks in the Geological Field by Alexander Winchell (1898)
"Let us visit a gravel pit, or some deep railroad cut through a pile of these
incoherent materials. Do you find these loose sands and gravels arranged in ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"original character of a gravel-pit, that it is not fit to be shown to ' bairns
and fools,' who, according to our old canny proverb, should never see ..."
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