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Cyclone pit   Listen
noun
Cyclone pit, Cyclone cellar  n.  A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. (Middle U. S.)






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"Cyclone pit" Quotes from Famous Books



... busy building themselves shelters from the heaven they dread, shelters that become as leaden shields shutting out the eternal tenderness and beneficence. No man ever found the celestial city or its glorious king so long as he regarded his religion as a cyclone cellar. ...
— Levels of Living - Essays on Everyday Ideals • Henry Frederick Cope

... "There's a cyclone cellar for you, Florrie, below the water line. If we're fired upon jump down, and don't come up until called, or until ...
— The Wreck of the Titan - or, Futility • Morgan Robertson



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