lime pit

noun

1. (in tanning) a pit containing lime in which hides are placed to remove the hair

Example Sentences

Moments later, he trudged across the lime pit where he had done hard labor and picked up a hammer and chisel to pound a rock into shards.

From Los Angeles Times

One of the best stories, “Good Monks,” makes use of a local landmark: an abandoned lime pit — desolate, lurid, ruined — known as the “Lost Planet.”

From New York Times

The wounds were ghastly: deep sabre cuts to the head and arms, a nose nearly cut off, one man driven into a lime pit and burned, “a piece the size of a half crown clean off the head” of another.

From The Guardian

Two pages later, she’s told something ghastlier: Any infants born from these forced liaisons were hastily baptized, then strangled and thrown in a lime pit in the cellar underneath the convent.

From Slate

The trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard how Beadman did a Google search for "lime pit" hours after dumping Kayleigh's body in a hedgerow.

From BBC