DCHP-2

scoop-out DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.
a large shallow excavation intended to hold the spring run-off and rain, serving as a reservoir.
See also: dugout (def. 3) scoop-up
- 1958 Every day the skies grew higher and bluer, the enclosing fields greener, the light so golden it even gilded the brackish water of pasture scoop-outs.