A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.
1Asterin's shout echoed, but Manon was falling, plunging the forty feet right into the stone pit.
2Over there a stone pit; faces grown like the faces of beasts, a picked-up rabble of assassins.
3As the beast inside roared with hunger, the walls around him became a stone pit slick with scum.
4The one room was dimly lit by a small fire crackling in the stone pit set into the right sod-and-timber wall.
5Indeed, behind the open jaws, where the throat would open up was now a dark stone pit set with iron rungs.
6I clattered down the bare metal steps into the great sunken stone pit and headed for the long, wooden bar at the far end.
7For a minute Dunsey thought that old Marner might be dead, fallen over into the stone pits.
Translations for stone pit