DCHP-3

sink-hole

West
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

an organic bog which is a brown to black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with a carpet of sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth.

See: muskeg(def. 1)

Quotations

1910
Elizabeth had ample time during the ensuing sixteen hours for inquiry as to the nature of sink-holes.
1910
"A sink-hole, well it's as you may say--a muskeg."
2n.

See quote.

See: pothole(def. 3a)

Quotations

1963
[A] sinkhole [is] a small depression in the prairie, usually with alkaline springs below it and therefore having no herbage.