doghole

A place regarded as fit only for dogs: a horrid, mean habitation.

But, cou’d you be content to bid adieu / To the dear Play-houſe, and the Players too, / Sweet Country Seats are purchas’d ev’ry where, / With Lands and Gardens, at leſs price, than here / You hire a darkſom Doghole by the year.

This is the first time I was ever weary of England, and longed to be in Ireland, but it is because go I must; for I do not love Ireland better, nor England, as England, worse; in short, you all live in a wretched, dirty Doghole and Prison, but it is a Place good enough to die in.

A small, shallow bay or inlet, usually surrounded by high cliffs, that is accessible only by smaller boats.

Not always this forbidding, some doghole ports like New Haven had safe handling records and managed to load 185 consecutive ships without an incident until the 130 ton Adelaide hit the rocks when a mooring chain broke.

Ft . Ross was a popular doghole, but its anchorage was discovered much earlier.

A type of small schooner designed in the 19th century to navigate in shallow waters and to conduct coastal shipping in and out of doghole ports.

A far cry from the miserable existance^([sic]) of the common sailor brought about by bucko mates and bible preaching captains on the large ocean-going vessels, life aboard a doghole wasn't for everyone and losing your ship on the rocks or being rolled like a cork on a big wave chased many back to the open sea with an indelible meaning of the expression 'doghole' forever stamped in their minds.

It happened one year, early in the last century, when a doghole schooner foundered , and the poor young man was drowned along with several sailors.

A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.

They know there are thousands of coal miners desperately in need of work, and they know the doghole operators cannot afford to pay these men union wages.

Most miners insist they would rather rob a bank or go on welfare than work in a doghole.

A mine worked by fewer than fifteen miners, which is small enough that some safety laws do not apply.

To work in a doghole mine, especially to manually dig up a vein.

Mostly, these activities are restricted to small tunneling, diggings, and dogholing from which the ore is extracted and sent to small cyanidation plants for gold recovery;

An' doghole that goddamn seam, too.