Sekirov Dictionary

doghole

UK /ˈdɒɡhəʊl/US /ˈdɔɡˌhoʊl/

noun 11
verb 1
forms 3

noun11

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One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
- Within a week after the volatile drug was placed in the dogholes and the entrances covered up, all but a couple of the animals had been killed. — 2014
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(disapproving) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.
- I am proud to welcome you to my house, though 'tis but a doghole, may it please your Grace, a mere doghole. — 1886
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A hole that was dug by a dog.
- He shows John the doghole in progress. So far it's just a pawed depression, but with a little more work the animal will be able to squeeze under the fence. — 2003
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(slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
- They know there are thousands of coal miners desperately in need of work, and they know the doghole operators cannot afford to pay these men union wages. — 1973
(slang) Such a small mine that is dug independently by one or a few miners, often clandestinely and illegally: a bootleg mine.
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A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
- When they want to punish someone, he is put down in a doghole. — 2011
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A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
- Ft . Ross was a popular doghole, but its anchorage was discovered much earlier. — 1984
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A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.
- It happened one year, early in the last century, when a doghole schooner foundered , and the poor young man was drowned along with several sailors. — 2017
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An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
- Forcing 160 of the survivors out of their dogholes, they shot 60 of them to death on the spot. — 1970
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An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
- The second doghole, driven at 385 feet to one of the pumping units, penetrated a water course, and within a few hours caved material had filled the shaft to 366 feet. — 1962
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A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.
- The most conspicuous addition is the screw- operated tail vise found at the right corner of the bench, which was designed to be used in conjunction with a row of dogholes. — 1997

verb1

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(slang) To work in a doghole mine, especially to manually dig up a vein.
- Mostly, these activities are restricted to small tunneling, diggings, and dogholing from which the ore is extracted and sent to small cyanidation plants for gold recovery — 1992

forms

dogholed · dogholing · dogholes

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