Definition of Limepit

1. a lime-filled pit [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Limepit

limehound
limehounds
limekiln
limekilns
limeless
limelight
limelighted
limelighting
limelights
limelike
limelit
limen
limen insulae
limen nasi
limens
limepit (current term)
limepits
limequat
limequats
limer
limerance
limerances
limerence
limerences
limerent
limericist
limericists
limerick
limericks
limers

Literary usage of Limepit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1793)
"... and a glover makes a limepit for calves-tkins and ... that the corruption of the limepit corrupts it, ..."

2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1900)
"... eleven acres of his land in Astley,1 to wit, two acres less one rood, on the western side of limepit, within ditches, and nine acres and one rood upon ..."

3. The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey of the Premonstratensian Order by Cockersand Abbey, William Farrer (1900)
"... eleven acres of his land In Astley,1 to wit, two acres less one rood, on the western side of limepit, within ditches, and nine acres and one rood upon ..."

4. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1902)
"The accounts often mention that the coal is bought for the house or for the limepit as the case may be, and sometimes the cost of porterage is included. ..."

5. Memories of a Musical Career by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1919)
"She might be hidden away in one of those limepit shells, — in a crevice or hole. Thus did I dream my time away, weaving a fairy tale about the spellbound ..."

6. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1915)
"... or to corrupt or poison a watercourse, by erecting a dye-house or a limepit for the use of trade, in the upper part of the stream; or in short to make ..."

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