an excavation dug to provide fill to make up ground elsewhere
borrow pit in American English
noun
Civil Engineering
a pit from which construction material, as sand or gravel, is taken for use as fill at another location
Word origin
[1890–95]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, cholesterol, historicism, honky-tonk, masochism
Examples of 'borrow pit' in a sentence
borrow pit
Soil samples 1 and 2 from borrow pit 3 were found to be poor, hence, needed stabilization.
Aderinola Olumuyiwa S., Nnochiri Emeka S. 2017, 'Stabilizing Lateritic Soil Using Terrasil Solution', Selected Scientific Papers: Journal of Civil Engineeringhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sspjce.2017.12.issue-1/sspjce-2017-0002/sspjce-2017-0002.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)