Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mud-hole , 2.
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Examples
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Galileo played for several years in a band at Pisa, and people who heard him said that his manner of gazing out over the Pisan hills with a far-away look in his eye after playing a selection, while he gently up-ended his alto horn and worked the mud-valve as he poured out about a pint of moist melody that had accumulated in the flues of the instrument, was simply grand.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887
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The awful thunder of a mud-valve suddenly burst forth, drowning the prayer, and as suddenly Uncle Dan'l snatched a child under each arm and scoured into the woods with the rest of the pack at his heels.
The Gilded Age, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
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The awful thunder of a mud-valve suddenly burst forth, drowning the prayer, and as suddenly Uncle Dan'l snatched a child under each arm and scoured into the woods with the rest of the pack at his heels.
The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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