How to pronounce “doghole”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (idiomatic, derogatory) A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.
• A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
• 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.
• (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
• (mining) An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
• A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
• An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
• One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
• A hole that was dug by a dog.
• A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.
• [Verb]
• (mining, slang) To work in a doghole mine, especially to manually dig up a vein.

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Similar Sounds

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