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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a large burrowing rodent, Marmota monax, common in eastern and central Canada.
Quotations
1789
We saw a fox and a ground hog on the hill. . . .
1883
A ground-hog had issued forth from his winterquarters and had been worried by a dog.
1957
Any groundhog who is crazy enough to get out of a nice warm bed to see what the weather is like should be shot at sunrise.
1963
. . . it was a very large pine marten attacking a ground hog.
2n. — B.C.
a large marmot, Marmota caligata, of the western mountains.
See: hoary marmot
Quotations
1807
The other animals are the beaver, otter, wolverine, wolf, lynx; red, grey, white and black foxes, porcupine, ground hog, marten, mink; common red, ground and flying squirrels; hares, bats and mice.
1824
The Old Slave says there are Siffleu or the Ground Hog . . . on some of these bare mountains.
1954
And across the divides the groundhogs whistling down at them and the flocks of little birds coming and going in swirls of cheery sound. . . .
1959
I watched ground hogs swimming for their lives. . . .