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borrow pit
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borrow pit
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(Engineering / Civil Engineering) Civil engineering an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
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Noun1.borrow pit - a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site
cavity, pit - a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body"


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Another, more ironic consequence is that the best fishing today is not in the lake but in borrow pits all around it.
Saving a beanfield oasis by Flader, Susan / American Forests
Borrow Pits are the small lakes that are created by developers when they excavate for aggregate used in foundations, roadbeds or other construction purposes.
Star Signs 11 Acre Lakefill Agreement by Business Wire
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