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dogholing

dogholing is the present participle and gerund of doghole.

Meaning of doghole

Verb

doghole (third-person singular simple present dogholes, present participle dogholing, simple past and past participle dogholed)

  1. (slang) To work in a doghole mine, especially to manually dig up a vein.
    • Mostly, these activities are restricted to small tunneling, diggings, and dogholing from which the ore is extracted and sent to small cyanidation plants for gold recovery;1992, Minerals Yearbook - Volume 3, page 231

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Questions about dogholing

What is dogholing the present participle and gerund of?
Dogholing is the present participle and gerund of doghole.

Words near dogholing in the dictionary

  1. doghearted
  2. doghobble
  3. doghole
  4. dogholed
  5. dogholes
  6. dogholing
  7. doghood
  8. doghouse
  9. doghouse bass
  10. doghouse basses
  11. doghouse bassist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dogholing (page history and authors); doghole (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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