burrow

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an animal's underground hole; to dig or nestle into something

   The rabbit vanished into its burrow at the first sign of danger.

From Middle English borow, a variant of burgh, borough ('fortified place, shelter'), from Old English burh, from Proto-Germanic *burgz ('fort'). The animal-hole sense developed from the notion of a sheltering refuge.

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