单词	crabhole
释义	crabhole /ˈkrabhəʊl / noun chiefly 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... 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. At the mouth of the cave is a crab-hole where they were always sure of a crab. I've sunken into a crab hole and nearly drop the lunch bucket of snails and crabs. 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... I help him chip crab holes down through three feet of ice. Here we found a clay crabhole. 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. Origin Mid 19th century: from crab1 + hole.
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