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語源

From chalk +‎ pit.

名詞

chalkpit (plural chalkpits)

1. A quarry where chalk is extracted.
   • 1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 7:

     I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a place in the wood I’d never seen before. And there was an old chalk-pit.

   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 216:

     I tried the next uphill turning. It took about half an hour to get back to the road again from the chalkpit into which it led us.