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单词 coney hold
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coney holdn.

Forms: late Middle English cony hold, 1500s cony holdes (plural).
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: coney hole n.
Etymology: Probably an alteration of coney hole n. by association with hold n.1 (compare sense 9 at that entry). With the figurative use compare later coney v., coney burrow n. 2a.
Obsolete.
A rabbit hole or burrow; figurative a place of refuge or retreat.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren
clapperc1400
cunnigar1424
warrena1425
coneygarth1429
coney-close?1472
coney hole?c1475
berry1486
coney holda1500
coney-clapper1530
coney yard1532
coneyry1570
coney burrow1575
coney gratec1580
coney-gat1591
coney green1599
coney warren1616
coney ground1617
rabbit hole1667
stop1669
rabbit burrow1723
stock1736
rabbit warren1766
stab1838
warrener1864
a1500 MS Trin. Cambr. O.2.13 f. 85, in L. R. Mooney MSS Libr. Trinity Coll., Cambr. (1995) 85/2 Put þat gloue on thy hande and conys will cum therto if thou holdist in a cony hold where conys be.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcj To bryng to obeysaunce Charles the dolphyn, or els to driue hym out of his litle cony holdes, and small countries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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