土ど取とり場ば

noun

borrowing pit; borrow pit

Technical term in civil engineering and flood prevention: a site where earth or soil is excavated for use in embankments or levees.

• 堤てい防ぼう工こう事じのために、近ちかくの土ど取とり場ばから土つちを運はこんだ。

  For the levee construction, soil was transported from a nearby borrowing pit.