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Webster 1828 Edition


Burrowing

BUR'ROWING

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ppr.
Lodging in a burrow.

Definition 2024


burrowing

burrowing

English

Verb

burrowing

  1. present participle of burrow

Noun

burrowing (plural burrowings)

  1. The act or result of making a burrow.
    • 1825, Thomas Thomson, ‎Richard Phillips, ‎Edward William Brayley, Annals of Philosophy
      These perforations may be readily distinguished from those more oblique and lateral burrowings which are often found in secondary fossils []