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muskrat house
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the living quarters of a muskrat, built on islands in and around a muskrat swamp.
See: living-house,lodge ((1))(def. 1b),muskrat cabin,muskrat swamp,pushup,rat-house,wash ((n.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1871
I had observed some musk-rat houses at one end of the lake. . . .
1929
The sloughs near by swarmed with muskrat houses, or dams, as the settlers call them--domes of reeds and flags rising several feet above the ice.
1958
Around their banks and on little islands were muskrat houses.