Crossword clues for burrow
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Camp \Camp\ (k[a^]mp), n. [F. camp, It. campo, fr. L. campus plant, field; akin to Gr. kh^pos garden. Cf. Campaign, Champ, n.]
The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
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A collection of tents, huts, etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner.
Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston.
--W. Irving. A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.
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The company or body of persons encamped, as of soldiers, of surveyors, of lumbermen, etc.
The camp broke up with the confusion of a flight.
--Macaulay. (Agric.) A mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored for protection against frost; -- called also burrow and pie. [Prov. Eng.]
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[Cf. OE. & AS. camp contest, battle. See champion.] An ancient game of football, played in some parts of England.
--Halliwell.Camp bedstead, a light bedstead that can be folded up onto a small space for easy transportation.
camp ceiling (Arch.), a kind ceiling often used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling.
Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet.
Camp fever, typhus fever.
Camp follower, a civilian accompanying an army, as a sutler, servant, etc.
Camp meeting, a religious gathering for open-air preaching, held in some retired spot, chiefly by Methodists. It usually last for several days, during which those present lodge in tents, temporary houses, or cottages.
Camp stool, the same as camp chair, except that the stool has no back.
Flying camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another.
--Farrow.To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp.
To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.
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."
c.1600, "to place in a burrow, from burrow (n.). Figuratively (such as to burrow (one's) head) by 1862. Intransitive sense, "to bore one's way into, penetrate" is from 1610s, originally figurative (literal sense, of animals, attested by 1771). Related: Burrowed; borrowing.
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.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Burrow is a hill in Shropshire with an Iron Age hill fort at the summit known as Burrow Camp. The nearest villages are Hopesay and Aston-on-Clun. It includes a large number of hut platforms, and two natural springs.
At 15:45 on 13 September 1943 a Vickers Wellington crashed on the hill. The flight was part of a cross-country and practice bombing exercise from RAF Chipping Warden, Oxfordshire. The crew encountered a severe thunderstorn above south Shropshire and was seen to be struck by lighting while flying over Lydbury North causing the plane to catch fire and lose height before disintegrating on the hilltop killing all eight crew members.
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 found in nearly every biome and among various biological interactions. Burrows can be constructed into a wide variety of substrates, and can range in complexity from a simple tube a few centimetres long to a complex network of interconnecting tunnels and chambers hundreds or thousands of metres in total length, such as a well-developed rabbit warren.
A burrow is a hole made by an animal.
Burrow may also refer to:
- Burrow, Iran, a village in Fars Province, Iran
- Burrow (Shropshire), a hill in Shropshire, England
- Burrow-with-Burrow, a parish in Lancashire, England
- "The Burrow" (short story), a short story by Franz Kafka
- The Burrow, a fictional place in the Harry Potter series
- FAU Arena or The Burrow, the Florida Atlantic University Arena
- Burrowing (politics), a practice of giving jobs to political allies
- The Burrow is a Supporter Group for the South Sydney Rabbitohs club
Burrow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- James Burrow, legal reporter at Inner Temple, London
- Milton Burrow (born 1921), American sound editor
- Sharan Burrow, Australian union official
- Taj Burrow, Australian surfer
- Thomas Burrow, orientalist, professor of Sanskrit at Oxford
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.