Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box or cage for the confinement and rearing of tame rabbits.
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Examples
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It's possible that you left the book among the straw you put in your rabbit-hutch; there would be nothing unusual about that.
She Doesn't Pay Her Musicians! John 2008
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Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first.
Les Miserables 2008
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Jimmy went in first, then ushered Dillon into Newman's rabbit-hutch of an office above a clothing shop in Leather Lane, just off Hatton Garden.
Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992
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Into an anonymous post-war building made of ferro-concrete, made up of usagigoya, tiny rabbit-hutch apartments.
The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990
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Astrid unlocked the door to her flat, which proved to be hardly larger than a rabbit-hutch, consisting, as far as I could see, of a tiny sitting-room with an equally tiny bedroom leading off it.
Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969
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The latter sentences were spoken from the forecastle, whither Davies had crept through a low sliding door, like that of a rabbit-hutch, and was already busy with a kettle over a stove which I made out to be a battered and disreputable twin brother of the No. 3 Rippingille.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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The first use he made of his freedom was to demolish a rabbit-hutch which was in the stable.
International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850 Various
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'Oh, Mother, I don't believe it will rain, and I do want to finish painting this rabbit-hutch!
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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The young couple on the lawn left the unfinished rabbit-hutch and paint-pots and strolled towards a garden-seat.
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Every forge has its sheep, every shop its pen like a rabbit-hutch, made out of the side of a box, where the sheep lives when it is not lying just at the threshold of the shop in the sun, beside a half-finished meal of bran in a box.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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