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Definition of crabhole in English: crabholenounˈkrabhəʊl Australian, NZ 1A hole in the ground made by a terrestrial crustacean. herons jab their crazy curved bills into the crabholes in the marsh muck Example sentencesExamples - It has been noticed that in their native home, they take refuge in under-water crab-holes or by burying themselves in the sand, where they remain until the rains come.
- Quite a few of the birds seemed to be peering down a crab hole, making me wonder if the heads had been dragged down by the crustaceans.
- You can just point to a crab hole and she will go crazy digging it out.
- I've sunken into a crab hole and nearly drop the lunch bucket of snails and crabs.
- Nose down, she would just run and run and her nose would go down every crab hole she found.
- At the mouth of the cave is a crab-hole where they were always sure of a crab.
- He looked around and saw a big crab looking at him from just out of the crabhole.
2A hollow in heavy clay soils where rainwater collects; a waterhole. he steered a way as best he could through trees, stumps, boulders and crabholes Example sentencesExamples - The clay is an extensively occurring type little of which has been cultivated, and so the crabhole formations are to be seen in varying stages.
- We were in a crabhole, three or four feet deep filled with soft mud and water.
- The plant grows only on crabhole plains of red, cracking clay soils.
- I help him chip crab holes down through three feet of ice.
- Here we found a clay crabhole.
Origin Mid 19th century: from crab1 + hole. |