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bank burrow
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a tunnel made by a beaver as an emergency shelter.
See: bank lodge
Quotations
1948
In no case does the beaver depend entirely on his lodge for shelter; he always has emergency shelters which have been tunnelled into the bank of lake or stream below water level to rise above water level in the bank. These are known as bank burrows, and a beaver colony may have as many as six.