Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place full of mud; a spot where there is mud of considerable depth; a depression where water and mud stand, as in a road.
- noun In steam-engines, an orifice with steamtight covering in the bottom of a boiler, through which the sediment is removed. Also
mudvalve . - noun A salt-water lagoon in which whales are captured.
- noun A soft spot in granite due to decomposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.
- noun (Steam Boilers) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
hole full ofmud , especially one in aroad - noun A hole near the bottom of a
steam boiler , through which thesediment iswithdrawn .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Look, the night after these kids died, he's down at the mudhole, which is the Mustang Club.
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Above this was another deposit of "mudhole" material which had thoroughly dried out, checked and cracked in all directions so that it formed angular masses of various sizes, and had then become wet again so that it was now soft and sticky.
Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Gerard Fowke 1894
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He was a big man who would cheerfully stomp a mudhole in your ass or shoot you if you broke the law.
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I elected him to try to drag this country out of the mudhole GW Bush left it stuck in.
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And restored the pond, which was just a mudhole then.
Blues Machine Bill Roorbach 2012
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I yearn for you as a crab craves the wet sand, a wildebeest the vast savannah, a toad every mudhole and mossy shelf.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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I much prefer the summer season when we are planning where we are going to troll for tuna or set up to shark in the mudhole and beyond.
Putting It To Bed 2008
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I yearn for you as a crab craves the wet sand, a wildebeest the vast savannah, a toad every mudhole and mossy shelf.
The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010
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In rural villages, children walk an average of 3.5 miles every day to fetch water from a smelly mudhole.
The Water Imperative Rich Halvorson 2010
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In rural villages, children walk an average of 3.5 miles every day to fetch water from a smelly mudhole.
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