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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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