Puts into small compartments

Usage examples of pigeonholes.

All those pigeonholes and small drawers look like a good idea, but you file something away and never find it again.

They was all a bit different: doors, no doors, one drawer, two drawers, false bottom, built-in lockbox, pigeonholes, whatever folks wanted.

It had tall legs, a cupboard with doors, no pigeonholes, one drawer, not two.

The President’s desk proved to be a tall affair with numerous pigeonholes, and a fine view from one of the room’s two windows of the Potomac, and the blue hills of Virginia beyond, now fading as the sun set.

Lincoln sat on the edge of his desk, studying a sheaf of heavily marked maps, as Hay and Nicolay came and went on mysterious errands that usually involved taking a document from or inserting a document into one or another of the pigeonholes of Lincoln’s desk.