STONE PIT as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
   Synonym(s)
   • pit (what does pit mean?)
   • quarry (what does quarry mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a British term for `quarry” is `stone pit”
   Hypernyms(s) stone pit is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • excavation (what does excavation mean?)
   • hole in the ground (what does hole in the ground mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • chalkpit (what does chalkpit mean?)
   • chalk pit (what does chalk pit mean?)
   • gravel pit (what does gravel pit mean?)
   • trou-de-loup (what does trou-de-loup mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • quarry (what does quarry mean?)