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borrow pit
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borrow pit [′bä·rō ‚pit]
(civil engineering)
An excavation dug to provide material (borrow) for fill elsewhere.


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Another, more ironic consequence is that the best fishing today is not in the lake but in borrow pits all around it.
Borrow Pits are the small lakes that are created by developers when they excavate for aggregate used in foundations, roadbeds or other construction purposes.
 
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