vole

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  1. noun Any of various rodents of the genus Microtus and related genera, resembling rats or mice but having a shorter tail and limbs and a heavier body.
  2. noun Games The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand, as of bridge; a grand slam.

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  • They are of the same family as the water vole, popularly though wrongly called the "water rat," as it is no more a rat than the plague vole is a mouse. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Esk followed the vole, amazed by the velocity of the digging. —  Vale of the Vole
  • Then he realized that their own party of centaur, vole, and human (approximately) was equivalently strange. —  Vale of the Vole
  • Another vole was there-no, Esk realized that there were subtle distinctions of form and coloration. —  Vale of the Vole
  • The hole debouched in a cave, where the centaur and the vole were now standing. —  Vale of the Vole
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  1. Short for obsolete volemouse, perhaps from Norwegian *vollmus : Old Norse völlr, field + Old Norse mūs, mouse.
  2. French, probably from voler, to fly, from Old French, from Latin volāre, to fly.

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  1. from French vole, from voler, fly, from Latin volare, fly: see volant.
  2. from vole, n.
  3. Short for vole-mouse.
 

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