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Mudhole

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Mud´hole`
n.1.A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.
2.(Steam Boilers) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn.


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Sometimes Manu would come running early in the morning to awaken Tarzan and tell him that Bara, the deer, was feeding close at hand, or that Horta, the boar, was asleep in a mudhole hard by, and in return Tarzan broke open the shells of the harder nuts and fruits for Manu, or frightened away Histah, the snake, and Sheeta, the panther.
Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The little dots in the foreground became grazing herds of deer and antelope and bos; a huge woolly rhinoceros wallowed in a mudhole to the right, and beyond, a mighty mammoth culled the tender shoots from a tall tree.
Out of Time's Abyss by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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