Definition of "lime-pit" [lime-pit]

• A limestone-quarry. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The eldest believed he would be quite safe if he crept into a lime-pit, but she saw him from the first window, made him come out, and had his head cut off."
• "He maintained I would have protested, and refused to be searched -- he was quite right, of course, but most of the other pious hypocrites disagreed with him, and the general feeling was that I was a fraud and a dangerous maniac who would be well served if I finished up in the prison lime-pit."
• "In two days we completed a lime-pit of proper dimensions."