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a place full of valuable or unusual objects
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A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above.
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The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
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(often plural) An underground system of tunnels and chambers with recesses for graves, used (in former times) as a cemetery; a tunnel system used for burying the dead, as in Paris or Ancient Rome.
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A type of urban explorer who visits the ancient catacombs and quarries linked by tunnels beneath Paris.
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(archaeology) Cliff-side dwelling made in the living rock by humans.
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A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
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A prehistoric human who lived in caves; a caveman or cavewoman.
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The location where something has caved in.
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Alternative spelling of cave in [The act of something collapsing or caving in.]
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The amount that fits in a cave.
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The mouth or entrance of a cave.
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(biology) A cavernicolous organism
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(rare) that inhabits caverns or caves
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Resembling or characteristic of a cavern.
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In a cavernous manner; sounding deep, hollow, or echoey.
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Full of small cavities.
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An enclosed underground space, often under a building, used for storage or shelter.
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The space or storerooms of a cellar.
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Land in which the underlying geology is chalk.
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(possibly nonstandard) Cavernous, like a vast hollow space.
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Alternative form of kloof [(South Africa) A deep glen or ravine.]
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(now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
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(now rare) A cave or cavern.
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Having the form of a cave
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a burrow or low underground passage
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An area of cutover land.
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(now rare) A pit or den.
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A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
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An underground structure consisting of a number of small chalk caves entered by a vertical shaft.
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(caving) the difference in level (depth) between two parts of a cave system, usually the highest and lowest known point. depth is the distance between the cave entrance and the lowest known point reached. denivelation is less than or equal to depth
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A fictional cavernous hall at the bottom of the ocean where evil magicians, spirits, and gnomes meet.
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(caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
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An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
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Characteristically like a dungeon
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A bank or mound of earth.
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A layer of stones and rocks laying on the bottom of a sea or lake that provides the base for a pier or breakwater.
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A terrain that varies little in elevation.
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(archaeology) A Cornish souterrain, an underground, dry-stone-walled chamber open on two ends.
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(geology) A basal indent in a karst landscape caused by water
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A vaulted room used by Berbers for storing grain
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(poetic) A field or meadow.
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A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim.
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An artificial cavern-like retreat.
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A small valley between mountains.
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(Canada) The undeveloped land under those towers.
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Alternative form of hypogeum [An underground room or cavern (also used figuratively).]
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(rare) An underground room, a cellar, a vault.
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An underground room or cavern (also used figuratively).
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A natural cave, usually a lava tube or limestone cave, that contains significant amounts of perennial ice.
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Enclosed or shut up as if in a cavern.
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Obsolete spelling of labyrinth [A complicated irregular network of passages or paths, especially underground or covered, in which it is difficult to find one's way.]
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In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
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Alternative form of lynchet [(archaeology) A bank of earth that slowly builds up on the lower slope of a ploughed field; a feature of ancient field systems.]
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(geology) A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
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Synonym of tunnel of love (amusement park attraction).
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An underground storage place for grain.
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A medium-sized cave, cavern or similar void
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The lowest sill of a structure, usually placed in or on the ground.
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(caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
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(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
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(archaeology) A shallow cave-like opening at the base of a bluff or cliff, a frequent location of prehistoric archeological sites.
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(caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
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(informal) A cave behind a waterfall that is filled with the crashing water, a potential hazard for canoes or kayaks.
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A sandbox raised on legs for children to play.
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A form of play therapy in which the patient builds something from sand (often wet) and figurines in the presence of a therapist
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A cave that is in or under the sea.
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A cave that is managed as a commercial tourist attraction.
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(archaeology) An underground chamber or passage sometimes used as a store, especially one associated with Iron Age settlements.
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The recreational activity of exploring caves.
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Alternative form of spelunk [(obsolete) A cave, cavern or grotto.]
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A morbid fear of caves or caverns.
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Underground, as if in a cave.
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Of or relating to spelunking, the exploration of underground caverns.
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(derogatory) An amateur or inadequately prepared caver.
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The practice or hobby of exploring underground caverns.
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(caving) A traversal of a narrow passage.
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An underground structure used to shelter from storms that have high winds, such as a tornado.
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A cellar beneath another storey wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.
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A cave or underground room.
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A cave or underground room.
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(rare) A machine for drilling or tunnelling underground.
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A tunnel forming part of a larger tunnel or tunnel system.
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A narrow channel cut in rock, especially in ancient Egyptian tombs.
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A small cavaedium with another floor built above it.
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Obsolete form of tunnel (“flue of a chimney”). [An underground or underwater passage.]
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(underwater diving) A cave chamber with an airspace above the water at less than atmospheric pressure.
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Alternative form of treestand [An open or enclosed platform secured to trees to provide a vantage point for hunters.]
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A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.
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The practice of living in caves or cavelike environments.
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An underground or underwater passage.
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(chiefly fantasy) A subterranean city.
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A cellar or vaulted storage room.
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(geography) Regions beneath the surface of the earth, both natural (eg. caves) and man-made (eg. mines).
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(chiefly fantasy) subterranean hallways
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(geology) A closed karst depression, a terrain form usually of elongated or compound structure and of larger size than a sinkhole.
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(obsolete) An underground or covered reservoir for water or waste; a cistern; a cesspit.
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(obsolete) Vaulted work.
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With a vaulted structure or appearance.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see vaulting, school. (A place where one learns to vault.)
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(obsolete) A vault; a leap.
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A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.
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Alternative form of vug [A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.]
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Alternative form of vug [A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes.]
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A subterranean grotto for the storage and aging of wine.
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