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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Baby burrower bugs stinkinate to tell mom they are hungry new meaning for poopy diapers?
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"Jyrin's a good man with similar habits to a Trastorian burrower."
Beast Master's Circus Norton, Andre 2004
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