doghole

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A place regarded as fit only for dogs

   A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.

   • But, cou’d you be content to bid adieu / To the dear Play-houſe, and the Players too, / Sweet Country Seats are purchas’d ev’ry where, / With Lands and Gardens, at leſs price, than here / You hire a darkſom Doghole by the year.
   • I am proud to welcome you to my house, though 'tis but a doghole, may it please your Grace, a mere doghole.
2. 2

   A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only…

   A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.

   • Not always this forbidding, some doghole ports like New Haven had safe handling records and managed to load 185 consecutive ships without an incident until the 130 ton Adelaide hit the rocks when a mooring chain broke.
   • Ft . Ross was a popular doghole, but its anchorage was discovered much earlier.
   • These "Doghole” coves were "not much bigger than a hole a dog might crawl into, squirm around and crawl out again."
3. 3

   A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and…

   A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.

   • It happened one year, early in the last century, when a doghole schooner foundered , and the poor young man was drowned along with several sailors.
   • This lumber was shipped off the coast by loading doghole schooners by cable (Harrison 1892)
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   1. 4

      A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws…

      A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.

      • They know there are thousands of coal miners desperately in need of work, and they know the doghole operators cannot afford to pay these men union wages.
      • Most miners insist they would rather rob a bank or go on welfare than work in a doghole.
      • He drove his father to the non-union doghole on the side of the mountain .
   2. 5

      An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.

      • The second doghole, driven at 385 feet to one of the pumping units, penetrated a water course, and within a few hours caved material had filled the shaft to 366 feet.
      • Stope preparation includes the excavation of finger raises, sidelines, undercuts, and dogholes as well as the longholing and blasting of pillars formed by this work.
      • The main adit, which yielded the only ore, and a 5-foot-long doghole are shown in figure 17.
   3. 6

      A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are…

      A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.

      • When they want to punish someone, he is put down in a doghole.
      • "Into the doghole with him!" the warden commanded.
      • That was a big disgrace for an educated man like him, so Hou grabbed onto the iron bars of the doghole, determined not to be put in there.
   4. 7

      An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.

      • Forcing 160 of the survivors out of their dogholes, they shot 60 of them to death on the spot.
      • Many of those who had time to get down into dogholes beneath the houses were asphyxiated.
      • The field was all our own in five minutes; the garrison was unscathed, the enemy had six killed, and it must have taken the others weeks to mend their dogholes.
   5. 8

      One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.

      • Within a week after the volatile drug was placed in the dogholes and the entrances covered up, all but a couple of the animals had been killed.
      • I knew coyotes would lie patiently beside dogholes for hours; I suspected that killing the sagebrush had removed the predator's cover, thereby eliminating the natural control force.
   6. 9

      A hole that was dug by a dog.

      • At this season, one must let sleeping dogs lie, and Grover was wont to retire to the cool shade of his latest doghole scooped out under the dogwood tree by the garden gate and growl "get lost" to anyone who ventured too close.
      • He shows John the doghole in progress. So far it's just a pawed depression, but with a little more work the animal will be able to squeeze under the fence.
   7. 10

      A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.

      • The most conspicuous addition is the screw- operated tail vise found at the right corner of the bench, which was designed to be used in conjunction with a row of dogholes.
      • Drill some dogholes, mount a vise, and you have a useful addition to your shop.
      • You can do this using the sliding stop on top of the vise and a row of dogholes bored into the bench surface.
   8. 11

      To work in a doghole mine, especially to manually dig up a vein.

      • Mostly, these activities are restricted to small tunneling, diggings, and dogholing from which the ore is extracted and sent to small cyanidation plants for gold recovery;
      • An' doghole that goddamn seam, too.
      • He tried to think of ways to get Curtis to give up dogholing, and for a moment thought of asking Sally to go into Cheylan with him to look at trailers, but remembered all her talk of leaving.

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