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Underground shelter
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burrow
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature. 2 (context mining English) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse. 3 (obsolete form of barrow English) A mound. 4 (obsolete form of borough English) An incorporated town. vb. To dig a tunnel or hole.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A burrow is a hole or tunnel excavated into the ground by an animal to create a space suitable for habitation, temporary refuge, or as a byproduct of locomotion . Burrows provide a form of shelter against predation and exposure to the elements and can be ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"rabbit-hole, fox-hole, etc.," c.1300, borewe , from Old English burgh "stronghold, fortress" (see borough ); influenced by bergh "hill," and berwen "to defend, take refuge."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter [syn: tunnel ] v. move through by or as by digging; "burrow through the forest" [syn: tunnel ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB down ▪ In burrowing down , the fish made a tube through the mud an inch or so across. ▪ She had flattened the grass, burrowed down and made a cosy little nest for herself. ▪ With that thought, once Peter had left ...
Usage examples of burrow.
Images formed in his mind-disconnected pictures of Billie laughing at him, smiling, burrowing in his arms.
Please do not tear me from the fins of the finest srob that I have ever known and the most delightful flin that ever brotched in a burrow!
Baal Burra would burrow, not without occasional result, if the upbraiding tongue was to be believed.
Baal Burra burrowing through the long grass, painfully slow and cheeping plaintively, while Sultan stalked ahead mewing encouragingly.
By sight and feel it quickly determined that the scuttling, burrowing thing in the gritty sand was a crab.
Their furry bodies and habits of burrowing into the shelter of the ground were protecting them from the worst of the cold.
When it heard a larva burrowing under the bark, it ripped off the bark with its teeth and plunged in a peculiarly long middle finger to hook the larva and deliver it to its gaping, greedy mouth.
These ancient survivors had ridden out the human apocalypse as they had survived so many before: by living off the gruesome brown food chain of the dying lands, by burrowing into the welcoming mud in drought.
A solo mole person, however, burrowing away at random, was likely to starve long before stumbling across the scattered bounty.
The frantic activity and sociability of their ancestors long abandoned, these burrowing rat-mouths spent their lives in holes in the ground, waiting for something to fall into their mouths.
In fact, all through the ages man has been imitating the animals in burrowing through the earth, penetrating the waters, and now, at last, flying through the air.
The aard vark outrivals, with his great claws, the most skilled burrowing tools of man.
He belongs to the great burrowing family, and is also extremely graceful in the water.
He tried to recollect everything his grandfather had said about burrowing spiders: for example, that when they encounter a large stone, they are often forced to change the direction of their tunnel.
Then, with sudden clarity, as if his mind had reached through the intervening yards of earth, he seemed to see a brown scarab beetle, little more than six inches long, burrowing its way down in search of long-buried vegetation.