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rat-hill
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a breathing-hole made in the ice by muskrats and kept open by means of tufts of grass and other vegetation stuffed in the opening.
See: pushup
Quotations
1937
She came . . . investigating a willow that Jones had stuck on a mound he had made in the snow where no rat-hill was.