borrow pit
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8.1
- noun
- Specialized
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excavación de préstamo
- In the 1960s and 1970s, the COE granted permits to dig several sand and gravel borrow pits in the eastern part of the bay (Fig. 2).
Examples
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Currently, there are two different borrow pit ordinances on the council agenda, one authored by Council Chair Byron Marinovich and one authored by District 6 Councilman Burghart Turner.
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The six-month moratorium on the issuance of new borrow pit permits may soon be lifted if the council votes on the new legislation at their August 21 meeting.
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Factors Affecting Blue Crabbing: Shipping Channels and Borrow Pits
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Two important locations where fishermen dredge blue crabs are the shipping channels and borrow pits.
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Therefore, his legislation makes no such compromises for borrow pit operators and states that no permit will be granted to applicants who do not intend to backfill.
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Marinovich says that although he would like to see backfilling done by every borrow pit operator, there is a compromise in his legislation that would exempt those who sell their dirt for in-parish levee work.
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Councilman Turner has said at previous PPC meetings that borrow pit operators' refusal to backfill is greed, and as the governing body, the PPC should not protect greed.
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In the bay, lobstermen placed pot lines near the edges of shipping channels, principally Raritan Bay Channel (Fig. 4), and later also in borrow pits constructed in the 1960s from sand mining.
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The construction crew excavated a large borrow pit to gather material for building the new road.
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In civil engineering, a borrow pit is essential for obtaining soil needed to fill areas at a construction site.
Synonyms
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3.6
A large hole in the ground used for mining
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3.6
A hole in the ground where people dig gravel for building
A large hole in the ground where people dig out chalk
A large open hole in the ground where people take stone for building
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Morphology
The compound denotes a pit from which material is borrowed/taken for use elsewhere, so its meaning is compositionally derivable from 'borrow' + 'pit'. Although it is a technical engineering term, the relation is literal and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Borrow pit comes from the simple idea of borrow meaning 'to take' and pit meaning 'a hole', because workers dig a hole near a building site and take soil or gravel from it to use elsewhere. So the term means a place where earth is taken to fill another site.