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lime pit

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lime pit
n
(Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Tanning) a pit containing lime in which hides are placed to remove the hair


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Hospitals in Cardiff were cleared in anticipation of the 100,000 deaths the government expected during the first weeks of war, mortuaries were stacked with cardboard coffins, in some areas lime pits were readied for mass burial.
Jokes, or rather non-jokes, about Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Spider-Man, George Bush, American Idol, Lindsay Lohan et al are thrown in like so many foot-and-mouth diseased carcasses being bulldozed into a lime pit.
Wal sal l Council's countryside services has organised a tour around Park Lime Pits local nature reserve in Aldridge for Sunday from 2pm until 4pm.
 
 
 
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