Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A nest made on the ground.

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Examples

  • The men did the same against other boulders, and lighting a huge fire opposite the mouth of my ground-nest, I sat cross-legged on the bed to eat my supper; my face scorching, and my back freezing.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Left his ground-nest, high towering to descry [280]

    Paradise Regained 1665

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