Definition of Lime pit. Meaning of Lime pit. Synonyms of Lime pit

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Definition of Lime pit

Lime pit
Lime pit, a limestone quarry. Lime rod, Lime twig, a twig smeared with birdlime; hence, that which catches; a snare. --Chaucer.

Meaning of Lime pit from wikipedia

- produced a baby, it was baptized and then strangled and dumped into a lime pit in the ba****t. Uncooperative nuns disappeared. Monk's story contains...
- limepit is either a place where limestone is quarried, or a man-made pit used to burn lime stones in the same way that modern-day kilns and furnaces constructed...
- probably small wood-fired flare kilns producing grey hydraulic lime. The chalk pits and lime kilns were leased by the Cowdray Estate to various people over...
- was housed in a tent that was constructed on what had been the site of a lime pit, with a $1 million building constructed several years later that included...
- in Shawshank, and another character is threatened with working in "the lime pit" at Shawshank. 1990 The Sun Dog Novella published in Four Past Midnight...
- Lime plaster is a type of plaster composed of sand, water, and lime, usually non-hydraulic hydrated lime (also known as slaked lime, high calcium lime...
- Lime mortar or torching is a masonry mortar composed of lime and an aggregate such as sand, mixed with water. It is one of the oldest known types of mortar...
- Lacustrine sands (Under Moscow, Lime Pit "Nikitsky")...
- include that he worked at a lime pit until he was recognised, upon which point his fellow-workers threw him into the pit, which turned him blind; he may...
- hangings were carried out at the town gaol and the bodies buried in a lime-pit within the curtilage of the gaol. One of the last prisoners to hang at...