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mudhole
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Word definitions for mudhole in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mudhole \Mud"hole`\, n. A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road. (Steam Boilers) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1780, from mud (n.) + hole (n.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Mudhole is a village and a Mandal in Adilabad district in the state of Telangana in India . It is very near to the Basar Saraswati Temple .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A hole full of mud, especially one in a road 2 A hole near the bottom of a steam boiler, through which the sediment is withdrawn.
Usage examples of mudhole.
He saw deer, and once he came upon a herd of the flatback mammuts gouging mudholes in the soft earth with their long straight tusks.
So we moved, ignominious, at the pace of the mules, on, into the next mudhole without stopping, on and out again.
Some packs had only mudholes now, with the prospect of four weeks or more until the melt started.
The mud puppy brought Ben and Dirk to the mudhole, waited until they were at its edge, and then disappeared into the dark.
In the murky lamp-light, as the creature stood motionless in its mudhole with its stumpy legs mired in rotten fruit rinds and its own excrement, I could see the stubs of three horns rising up from a neckplate of bone covered with leathery gray flesh.
There was a mudhole shaping up where the watering trough stood, and in front of Dad Jenn’.
After all, Lagos streets have mudholes equally deep, and buildings (in less attractive parts of the city) equally ramshackle, and it had developed with the same disdain of urban planning.