vole

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. 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. n. Games The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand, as of bridge; a grand slam.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In card-playing, a winning of all the tricks played in one deal.
2. In card-playing, to win all the tricks played in one deal.
3. n. A shorttailed field-mouse or meadow-mouse; a campagnol or arvicoline; any member of the genus Arvicola in a broad sense. All the Arvicolinæ are voles, though some of them, as the lemming and muskrat, are usually called by other names. They are mostly terrestrial, tending to be aquatic, abound in the sphagnous swamps and low moist ground of nearly all parts of the northern hemisphere, and are on the whole among the most mischievous of mammals. The common vole, meadowmouse, or short-tailed field-mouse of Europe is A. agrestis. The water-vole or water-rat is a larger species, A. amphibius, almost as aquatic as a muskrat. Some voles are widely distributed, among them one common to the northerly parts of both hemispheres, the red - backed vole, Erotomys rutilus. The commonest representatives in the United States are Arvicola riparius, A. austerus, and A. pinetorum. A very large species of British America is A. xanthognatha. The name vole is purely British, being seldom heard in the United States, or used in books treating of the American species, which are called field-mice and meadow-mice. See also cuts under Arvicola, Evotomys.Synaptomys, and waterrat.

Wiktionary

1. n. Any of a large number of species of small rodents of the family Cricetidae.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A deal at cards that draws all the tricks.
2. v. (Card Playing) To win all the tricks by a vole.
3. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of micelike rodents belonging to Arvicola and allied genera of the subfamily Arvicolinæ. They have a thick head, short ears, and a short hairy tail.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows