Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which burrows. Specifically
  • noun One of the fossorial aculeate Hymenoptera; one of the Fossores (which see).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, burrows; an animal that makes a hole under ground and lives in it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One that burrows
  • noun An animal that lives in an underground hole that it has made itself

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Examples

  • Oh, that a Cheney 'burrower' ensured that Abdulmutallab was not on the 'No-Fly' list, so that the US would be attacked under Obama?

    legitgov 2010

  • Under study, a hand congealed from its coating of desert, ww1-leftover helmets, a burrower nose squashed against the wall of the foxhole, the rifle in a fruitless caress.

    In the Gulf David Ackley 2011

  • More, the burrower constructs the permanent archicecture of his own freedom as he tunnels, moves in any direction and is safer.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • But we never say--for example--'free as a mole', although the same circumstances apply to the burrower.

    Free as a mole Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.

    Call me Ishmael Young Geoffrion 2007

  • More, the burrower constructs the permanent archicecture of his own freedom as he tunnels, moves in any direction and is safer.

    Free as a mole Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • But we never say--for example--'free as a mole', although the same circumstances apply to the burrower.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007

  • It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • Baby burrower bugs stinkinate to tell mom they are hungry new meaning for poopy diapers?

    Link Rodeo, Vol. 3 | Thingamababy 2006

  • "Jyrin's a good man with similar habits to a Trastorian burrower."

    Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004

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