| 单词 | bone pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone pit bone pit n. a pit or excavation containing a mass of bone or bone fragments; esp. (frequently in archaeological contexts) a location in which numbers of human bones have been deposited or interred; a communal or mass grave; an ossuary. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] > native American bone pit1849 1849 Observer 26 Nov. 3/4 Dr. Milroy put a variety of questions to the sexton, and amongst others whether they had not such a bone pit in which they deposited the bones collected from the graves which were opened. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms i. 25 In the State of New York and in Canada there are..many places..where the Indians buried their dead, and these are known as bonepits. 1934 Sci. Amer. Dec. 290/2 Curiously enough, segregated into restricted sections or bone pits, there have been unearthed..mammoths..extinct bears..and..the skull of an African type of lion. 2003 Proc. Seminar Arabian Stud. 2002 33 39/2 While cleaning a small trench east of Bone Pit 1, another deposition of human bones was found at a distance of about one metre. < as lemmas |
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