Meaning of pughole | Babel Free

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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