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chalkpit

/ ˈtʃɔːkˌpɪt /

noun

  1. a quarry for chalk
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

There was a gap in his sensations, and Hapley found himself sitting on the heap of flints in front of the opening of the chalkpits, with a leg twisted back under him.

There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit.

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