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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 slime pit
 產瀝青的礦

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.