Clay pit


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a pit where clay is dug.

See also: Clay

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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When the potter's donkey slipped in the clay pit, Mowgli hauled it out by the tail, and helped to stack the pots for their journey to the market at Khanhiwara.
1983: People searching a clay pit in Surrey discovered fossils of a previously unknown species of carnivorous dinosaur.
During August 5- 21, 2018, we anesthetized 16 male white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and groomed them for ticks from 4 locations: College of Staten Island, Clay Pit Ponds, Mount Loretto State Forest, and Freshkills Park.
Two years later, Solomon Withey set up a small kiln on a clay pit near Ionia and Coldbrook Streets.
Starting Tuesday, Amazon customers in the Texas capital can use the app to place food orders from a wide variety of local restaurants and food trucks, such as Clay Pit, Michi Ramen, Southside Flying Pizza and more.
1983: People searching a clay pit in Surrey |discovered fossils of a previously unknown species of carnivorous dinosaur.
Someone expertly sculpted two clay bison in the chamber next to the clay pit. No footprints are preserved on the floor surrounding the sculptures.
Fifteen years ago Iris Brickfield was a council landfill site, and at the turn of the 20th century it was a 60-ft-deep clay pit and brick works.
Louis Park were on a fossil-hunting field trip in the park on May 22 when a mass of sand and broken shale fell from a bluff overlooking the fossil beds near the East Clay Pit. Two students -- 10-year-old Mohamed Fofana and 9-year-old Haysem Sani -- were killed and two others hurt.