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doghole; doghole mine
noun
a small mine employing fewer than 15 miners US, 1943- The so-called dogholes are most numerous in Kentucky, but there are many in Virginia and West Virginia. — Paul W. Thrush, A Dictionary of Mining, Mineral and Related Terms, p. 337, 1968
- “Now those were bad members, Clete, they gone out and joined up with these dogholes we been trying to close down.” — John Sayles, Union Dues, p. 19, 1977
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