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单词 hog hole
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hog hole
hog hole n. (a) (chiefly British) a narrow gap in a wall or fence designed to allow young sheep to pass from one pasture to another; (b) (chiefly North American) a gap in a wall or fence made for or by a pig; (also) = hog wallow n. (a); (c) figurative and in extended use.
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1688 J. Bunyan Solomon's Temple xxvi. 62 [Satan] goes round and round, and round us, to see if he can find a Hog-hole for that purpose.
1725 H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 103 [This shrub] grew near the Hog-Holes in the Savanna by the Town of St. Jago de la Vega.
1834 G. S. Yerger Rep. Supreme Court Tennessee 4 37 On the same fence opposite the oat patch, there were several hog holes near the ground, large enough for the entrance of hogs.
1840 R. S. Ewell Let. in D. C. Pfanz Richard S. Ewell (1998) iii. 29 [A] filthy hog hole of a German Dutch tavern.
1890 R. R. Dawes Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers 177 A board or two off from the fence made what the man called a ‘hog-hole’. Instructing the regiment to follow in single file on the run, I took a color, ran across the street, and jumped through this opening in the fence.
2000 A. Evans & B. Evans Short Walks in Lakeland 17 Ignore the gate, carry on for 100 yards to just before a hog hole in the wall, then turn R up a little U-shaped valley.
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