Crossword clues for burrowing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burrow \Bur"row\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Burrowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Burrowing.]
To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
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To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.
Sir, this vermin of court reporters, when they are forced into day upon one point, are sure to burrow in another.
--Burke.Burrowing owl (Zo["o]l.), a small owl of the western part of North America ( Speotyto cunicularia), which lives in holes, often in company with the prairie dog.
Wiktionary
n. The act or result of making a burrow. vb. (present participle of burrow English)
Wikipedia
Burrowing is a slang term used in the United States to describe the practice in which political appointees are given civil service protection. Except for judges, political appointees are subject to losing their jobs when a new administration takes power. On the other hand, career government officials are protected from losing their jobs when a new administration takes over. Burrowing is therefore the practice of reassigning people who do not have civil service protection into jobs that have civil service protection.
Usage examples of "burrowing".
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.
Internet, so with no difficulty he was able to Google up plenty of information about the burrowing owl.
Roy explained that the burrowing owls were protected by state and federal laws, and that it was illegal to harm the birds or disturb active burrows without getting special government permits.
The authorities in charge of protecting the burrowing owls would never block construction of the pancake house based on such fuzzy evidence.
But something skittered away, burrowing under the surface of her conscious mind, and she found it suddenly difficult to think.