pughole

Definitions

A marshy place where water pools or seeps.

Examples

“[…] Is there much stagnant water lying about? - There is no more than what has accumulated in the natural gullies and pugholes, from flood⟳ water, which the drains have⟳ not taken off. […] some of these pugholes [...] are twenty, thirty, or forty feet [deep].”

“Where there are set⟳ backs and bayous and pug holes and marshes along the river, if the water is let⟳ out from the dams above, the marshes, bayous, set-backs and pug-holes have⟳ a tendency to have⟳ a rapid raise⟳ of the water.”

“She had learned to call⟳ the slews "pugholes," and to watch⟳ for ducks at twilight. She had learned that about the pugholes flutter choirs of crimson-winged blackbirds; that the ugly brown birds squatting on fence-rails were the divine-voiced meadow larks; that[…]”

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