Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pit where marl is dug.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Apit where marl is dug.
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- noun dated A
pit wheremarl has been dug.
Etymologies
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Examples
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After I had left the meadows, I crossed the corn-fields in the way to our house, and passed close by a deep marlpit.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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'It was well earned,' said Puck, throwing some leaves into the still water of the marlpit.
Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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This is sadder and darker than the Volaterrae end because of an old marlpit full of black water, where weepy, hairy moss hangs round the stumps of the willows and alders.
Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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This is sadder and darker than the ‘Volaterrae’ end because of an old marlpit full of black water, where weepy, hairy moss hangs round the stumps of the willows and alders.
Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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‘It was well earned,’ said Puck, throwing some leaves into the still water of the marlpit.
Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Leaving Banner's marlpit to the left, we proceed up a narrow lane crossing the old Bromsgrove road, and up to the turnpike at the five ways in the road to Hales Owen.
An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769
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