_barrow pit_ in W3 is equated with _borrow ditch_ which is described as "a ditch dug along a roadway to furnish fill and provide drainage." Regards, David David K. Barnhart, Editor The Barnhart Dictionary Companion [quarterly] barnhart at highlands.com www.highlands.com/Lexik "Necessity obliges us to neologize." Thomas Jefferson-August 16, 1813