claypit
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See also: clay pit
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[edit]claypit (plural claypits)
- Alternative form of clay pit
- 1952 June, H. G. Kendall, “The Redlake Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 419:
- After a preliminary survey had been made during 1909, it was decided to construct a narrow-gauge railway from the claypits to a point adjacent to the G.W.R. main line between Ivybridge and Bittaford.
- 2009 September 3, Peter Walker, Martin Wainwright, “Victim's plea to boy torturers: 'Leave me to die'”, in Guardian[1]:
- As the couple cared for the deeply traumatised nine-year-old, their son, Ian, went to Brick Ponds, an expanse of semi-wild parkland and lakes on the site of an old claypit used for brickmaking.