gravel pit

English

Noun

gravel pit (plural gravel pits)

1. A quarry from which gravel for construction purposes is obtained.
   • 1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25:

     At Fallgate a short branch leading to a quarry is disused, but some gravel pits are working at full blast; [...].

Translations

quarry

• Catalan: gravera f
• German: Kiesgrube (de) f, Schottergrube (de) f
• Hungarian: kavicsbánya (hu)
• Polish: żwirownia (pl) f
• Swedish: grustag (sv) n
• Welsh: grobwll m

References

• “gravel pit”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “gravel-pit”, in Collins English Dictionary.