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Meanings of circular pit in English

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Usage of circular pit in English
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We had a deep circular pit, like a well, dug in the fort.
Snow Shoes and Canoes / Or, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in th...
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It was empty, just a shallow, circular pit of bare stone.
The Name of the Wind
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My fear had now left me, for I remembered this circular pit quite well.
The Girl in the Golden Atom
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She was kneeling in a circular pit that might have been an old well.
The spirit rebellion: the legend of eli monpress: book 2
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We find the circular pit Rogers made in the scratch and we descend into it.
The Girl in the Golden Atom
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Che and Salma, along with some dozen others, were confined in a sheer-sided circular pit.
Empire in black and gold
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Near the south wall, a circular pit with a three-foot diameter seemed to drop into darkness.
Summer of Night
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After descending a rather sharp declivity, our feet trod the bottom of a kind of circular pit.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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The youngster's eyes opened as he looked again at the circular pit with its brilliantly tinted sides.
The White Waterfall
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The large circular pit appeared behind the house of Ray and Lynn McKay in Ipswich, west of Brisbane.
BBC
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After going down a fairly steep slope, our feet trod the floor of a sort of circular pit.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
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It contains a rough shelf cut in the wall, and in the centre of this a shallow circular pit.
Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders
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Frodo and Sam crawled after him until they came to a wide almost circular pit, high-banked upon the west.
The two towers
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They hurried on, and when they had gone fifty yards stood at the edge of a roughly circular pit.
The Treasure of the Incas: A Story of Adventure in Peru
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This is a circular pit twenty-five or thirty feet in diameter, three feet deep, and lined with boards or brick.
Diggers in the Earth
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Over that aspect we hung now on the very edge of the great circular pit the Martians were engaged in making.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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