doghole (English, noun)
expansion: doghole (plural dogholes)
Senses:
glosses: A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment.
glosses: A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
glosses: A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
tags: slang
topics: business
mining
glosses: A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
Such a small mine that is dug independently by one or a few miners, often clandestinely and illegally: a bootleg mine.
tags: slang
topics: business
mining
glosses: An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
glosses: A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
glosses: An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
glosses: One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
glosses: A hole that was dug by a dog.
glosses: A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.
Forms:
form: dogholes
tags: plural