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词汇 crabhole
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Definition of crabhole in English:

crabhole

nounˈkrabhəʊl
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.

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