a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate;
"a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
stone pit的用法和樣例:
例句
We took a rope to go rock-climbing up the side of a disused stone quarry. 我們帶著繩子去一個廢棄的採石場玩攀岩。
The Palermo stone also mentions expeditions to Sinai as well as to the diorite quarries northwest of Abu Simbel. 帕勒摩石碑也提及到遠征西奈山,同時也提到前往阿布辛拜勒西北部的閃長岩採石場。