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gravel pit

gravel pit noun: a quarry from which gravel for construction purposes is obtained.

gravel pit: a quarry from which gravel for construction purposes is obtained
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Noun

gravel pit (plural gravel pits)

  1. A quarry from which gravel for construction purposes is obtained.
    • At Fallgate a short branch leading to a quarry is disused, but some gravel pits are working at full blast; [...].1944 January and February, “Light Railways in Derbyshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 25

gravel pit meaning in Tamil

gravel pit in Tamil

சரளைக்கற்குழி, சரளைக் கற்குழி

Forms of gravel pit

pluralgravel pits

Questions about gravel pit

What does gravel pit mean?
Gravel pit means a quarry from which gravel for construction purposes is obtained.
What is gravel pit in Tamil?
Gravel pit in Tamil is சரளைக்கற்குழி, சரளைக் கற்குழி. See Gravel pit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is gravel pit?
Gravel pit is a noun.
What is the plural of gravel pit?
The plural of gravel pit is gravel pits.

Words near gravel pit in the dictionary

  1. gravel cycling
  2. Gravel Gertie
  3. Gravel Gerties
  4. gravel nest
  5. gravel nests
  6. gravel pit
  7. gravel pits
  8. gravel road
  9. gravel road cop
  10. gravel road cops
  11. gravel roads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gravel pit (page history and authors); gravel pit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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