Pit
Pit noun - A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.
Usage example: a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
Quarry
Quarry noun - A surface excavation for extracting stone or slate.
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Pit is a synonym for quarry in excavation topic. You can use "Pit" instead the word "Quarry" as a noun or a verb, if it concerns topics such as hole in the ground, opencast. popular alternative
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Makes it even clearer when only the heroes seemed to realize the Earthbenders could use the earth in the quarry to fight the Firebenders who had only one fire pit in the middle of the quarry to fight back with.
Source: Film / The Last Airbender - The Great Hell Castle by Hiroshi Hirata has a Japanese lord order the prisoners of his castle to dig out a huge pit, then quarry and bring in huge boulders to line the walls and make it watertight, then carry water up a cliff and fill in the pit.
Source: Prisoner's Work -
Rather than take a door (like the gates that lead to Blackrock Spire) into the city, one must walk along a chain, through a tomb suspended above a pit of lava, down another chain, then through a small hallway, a stone quarry, a masonry, and a prison (all rough stone, except for a few prison areas).
Source: Ruins for Ruins' Sake
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