mousehole

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Translations
حُفْرَة الفِئْران
myší díra
musehul
Mauseloch
trou de souris
egérlyuk
músarhola
tana di topo
ネズミ穴
musehull
myšia diera
fare deliği
鼠洞

mousehole

[ˈmaʊshəʊl] Nratonera f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mouse

(maus) plural mice (mais) noun
1. any of several types of small furry gnawing animal with a long tail, found in houses and in fields.
2. (computers) a device that is used to move the cursor on a computer screen and to give instructions to a computer.
ˈmousy adjective
1. (of hair) dull brown in colour.
2. timid; uninteresting. a mousy little woman.
ˈmousehole noun
a hole made or used by mice.
ˈmousetrap noun
a mechanical trap for a mouse.
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The fishing village of Mousehole and the tidal island of St Michael's Mount are close by.
Jim Bailey was swept overboard NEARLY five weeks after setting out from Plymouth to sail the Atlantic single-handed in his home-built catamaran - Determination, Wymeswold's Jim Bailey limped back into Mousehole Harbour Cornwall.
Mrs Unwin was last seen at the anchorage at Mousehole. A lifeboat and helicopter search for her was called off following the discovery of wreckage.
Mousehole and Polperro, both in Cornwall, Colwinston in the Vale of Glamorgan and Beer, Devon, now stand between it and the final.
The lifeboat Solomon Browne, based at the Penlee lifeboat station near Mousehole, and operated by volunteers, went to the aid of the vessel Union Star after its engines failed in heavy seas.
These include Sam and the Seagulls by Stephen Warman and Ruth Knight, The Mousehole Mice and the Theatre by the Sea by Michelle Cartlidge and A Cornish Christmas by Craig Green and Oliver Hurst.
After Newlyn the first village you reach is Mousehole (pronounced locally as Mow-zul by the way).
It is believed Thomas's friend Wyn Henderson, owner of the Lobster Pot B&B in Mousehole, Cornwall, where Caitlin and Dylan were staying, had to pay for the wedding licence.
Rolling marbles foiled Groucho's charge, and Albert, Wanda, and Leo escaped into the mousehole, leaving Groucho to receive the blame for the spilled marbles!
Between them they also sang 'In Concert' at 10 locations throughout Cornwall from Padstow in the north to St Ives and Paul near Mousehole in the south, making friends on the way with other international choirs from all over the world.
JUST in case spring remains elusive, increase your chance of uplifting Easter weather with a long weekend in the tiny Cornish fishing village of Mousehole which seems to have its own microclimate.
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