She wants the main character to light the trash pit for her.

They turned out to be animal bones discarded into what is known as a "trash pit" beneath the home.

Three uniformed deputies and a plainclothes detective were in back, raking garbage out of an old trash pit.

Rennie tossed the bare drumstick toward the trash pit and hit it unerringly.

"I found an iron that you have to heat up on the stove, in the trash pit out behind the Langworthys'," she said.

I've learned countless things, such as how to date levels of a supposed trash pit and how to clean dirt away from artifacts.

Radiocarbon dating of charcoal uncovered from a prehistoric trash pit returned a date of 1214.

The "trash pits" of the village were able to illustrate what these people were eating.

We'll probably end up in some trash pit or incinerator.

The archeologists are spending a lot of time going through the trash pits and sifting through the household garbage.