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lime pit

noun

  1. (in tanning) a pit containing lime in which hides are placed to remove the hair
“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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A finer sort of parchment than the former, but prepared in the same manner, except that it is not passed through the lime-pit.

Perhaps in a stone-quarry, or lime-pit; perhaps at the edge of waters.

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