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BURROWS

Volume 5 · 49 words · 1815 Edition

holes in a warren, serving as a covert for rabbits, &c. A coney's coming out of her burrow is called bolting. To catch conies, they sometimes lay purse-nets over the burrows, then put in a terrier close muzzled, which making the creature bolt, she is caught in the net.