Usually means: Small, rough port for ships.
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  1. doghole: Merriam-Webster
  2. doghole: Collins English Dictionary
  3. doghole: Wordnik
  4. doghole: Wiktionary
  5. Doghole: Dictionary.com
  6. Doghole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. doghole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Doghole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. doghole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. doghole: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Doghole: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. doghole: Encyclopedia

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  1. doghole: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (doghole)

noun:  A place fit only for dogs; a vile, mean habitation or apartment.
noun:  A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.
noun:  A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.
noun:  (mining, slang) A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.
noun:  Such a small mine that is dug independently by one or a few miners, often clandestinely and illegally: a bootleg mine.
noun:  (mining) An excavated area that acts as an access hole or that connects different parts of a mine.
noun:  A tiny, uncomfortable hole or cell, usually too small to stand in, in which prisoners are confined as punishment.
noun:  An underground bolthole dug to hide from enemy soldiers.
noun:  One of the entrances to a system of prairie dog tunnels.
noun:  A hole that was dug by a dog.
noun:  A hole drilled for the placement of a bench dog.
verb:  (mining, slang) To work in a doghole mine, especially to manually dig up a vein.

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