borrow pit

1. 1.

   a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site

   Broaderpit

Questions about borrow pit

What does borrow pit mean?

borrow pit means "a pit created to provide earth that can be used as fill at another site".

Is borrow pit a common word?

borrow pit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.