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单词 borrow-pit
释义 ˈborrow-pit
[app. f. borrow v.1]
In civil engineering, an excavation formed by the removal of material to be used in filling or embanking. Also ˈborrow-hole.
1893Kipling Day's Work (1898) 2 Tiny asses climbing out of the yawning borrow-pit below with sackfuls of stuff.1901Practitioner Mar. 258 ‘Borrow-holes’ in railway embankments.1907Notes on Books June 267/2 An easily applied check on borrow-pit measurements.
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