1A hole in the ground made by a terrestrial crustacean.
herons jab their crazy curved bills into the crabholes in the marsh muck
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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
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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.