Definition of "chalkpit" [chalk•pit]

• A quarry where chalk is found. (noun)

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• "Factory appears Chomfuku, the village of Jim Potter, with a tree-clad sink, compared by old voyagers with “the large chalkpit on Portsdown Hill,” and still much affected by picnickers."
• "On the left our line was extremely dangerous and weak, for it was enfiladed from the high ground in the direction of Pys; while the extreme left post in a chalkpit was not only isolated by 300 yards from the next"
• "There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit."