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ˈslime-pit
Also slime pit.
1. In or after Biblical use: A pit or hole yielding asphalt or bitumen.
1530Tindale Prol. 5 Bks. Moses Wks. 6/2 Slyme was their morter, chap. 11. and slyme pittes, chap. 14. 1535Coverdale Gen. xiv. 10 Yt brode valley had many slyme pyttes. 1611Bible Gen. xiv. 10 And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits. 1737Whiston tr. Josephus, Antiq. i. ix, They pitched their camp at the vale called the Slime Pits. 1853Layard Nineveh & Babylon 202 In an hour the bitumen was exhausted for the time,..and the..moon again shone over the black slime pits. 1895Sayce Patriarchal Palestine iv. 178 Here were the ‘slime-pits’ from which the naphtha was extracted.
2. techn. A pit or reservoir in which metallic slimes are collected.
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 234 The slimy earthy parts are carried by the water into a slime pit just below. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 752 Slime pits or labyrinths, called buddle holes in Derbyshire, are employed to collect that matter. 1882U.S. Rep. Prec. Met. 610 A copper miner..would tell you..what a large proportion would go to enrich the slime pits. |