slime pit
產瀝青的礦
Slime n.
1. Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. --Shak.
2. Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
3. Script. Bitumen. [Archaic]
Slime had they for mortar. --Gen. xi. 3.
4. pl. Mining Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
5. Physiol. A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
Slime eel. Zool. See 1st Hag, 4.
Slime pit, a pit for the collection of slime or bitumen.