stone pit

1. 1.

   a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate

   “a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'”

   Synonymspitquarry

   Broaderexcavation

   Narrowerchalkpitgravel pit

Questions about stone pit

What does stone pit mean?

stone pit means "a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate".

What is another word for stone pit?

Close synonyms include pit, quarry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stone pit a common word?

stone pit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.