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chalkpits

chalkpits is the plural of chalkpit.

Meaning of chalkpit

Noun

chalkpit (plural chalkpits)

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

Questions about chalkpits

What is chalkpits the plural of?
Chalkpits is the plural of chalkpit.

Words near chalkpits in the dictionary

  1. chalkophores
  2. chalkopyrite
  3. chalkopyrites
  4. chalkosine
  5. chalkpit
  6. chalkpits
  7. chalks
  8. chalks against
  9. chalks down
  10. chalks it down
  11. chalks off

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