mudhole


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mudhole

(ˈmʌdˌhəʊl)
n
1. a hole filled with mud, usually on a road
2. a filthy, squalid, or detestable place
3. a hole for collecting mud or sediment from a boiler or condenser
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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.
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.
They take the dirt and you play volleyball in a mudhole. They get all gooey, slip and slide everywhere," she said.
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Something had, literally, stomped a mudhole in the mudhole and had left clear tracks on the edges.
And now imagine a week into it, you can remember only fleeting fragments of the first few minutes--and have no clue how you wound up a hundred miles away, looking like a rhino stomped you into a mudhole and walked it dry ...
"It was a maintenance issue to make it grow, and in that climate it was a mudhole by the end of the season," Johnson said.
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However, the horse displayed considerable forbearance, I thought, by limiting his response to ear and tail action instead of pitching his rider into a mudhole.
A Texas court has sentenced Narjes Modarresi to life in prison for murdering her two-month-old son by pushing him into a water-filled mudhole and drowning him.
When we still farmed, we had to hire it about twice a year to pull the Massey out of a mudhole. My father's cousins would send a hired man with the skidder and the hired man would link a chain around the tractor's front axle.