| 单词 | crab-hole |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrab-hole crab-hole n. Australian a hole burrowed by a land crab. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > hole burrowed by crab crab-hole1848 1848 Mrs. Perry in G. Goodman Church in Victoria (1892) 72 Full of crab-holes, which are exceedingly dangerous for the horses... These holes are formed by a small land-crab, and then gradually enlarged by the water draining into them. 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. ii. 47 The surface [of the land] was closely pitted with crabhole-like water-hollows. 1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life 16 Price and Cooper, being cooks had kindled an unobtrusive fire in a crab-hole, where three billies were soon boiling. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise xvii. 157 The ball may be lifted or dropped without penalty from wallaby scrapes, crab holes, ironstone outcrops and tractor marks. < as lemmas |
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