pughole

plural pugholes

1. A marshy place where water pools or seeps.

   Where there are set backs and bayous and pug holes and marshes along the river, if the water is let out from the dams above, the marshes, bayous, set-backs and pug-holes have a tendency to have a rapid raise of the water.

   1899, Case on Appeal to Court of Appeals, page 120

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   […] Is there much stagnant water lying about? - There is no more than what has accumulated in the natural gullies and pugholes, from flood water, which the drains have not taken off. […] some of these pugholes [...] are twenty, thirty, or forty feet [deep].

   1877, South Australia. Parliament, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia: With Copies of Documents Ordered to be Printed ..., Sanitation, November 5th, 1875, page 12

   She had learned to call the slews "pugholes," and to watch for ducks at twilight. She had learned that about the pugholes flutter choirs of crimson-winged blackbirds; that the ugly brown birds squatting on fence-rails were the divine-voiced meadow larks; that[…]

   1919, Sinclair Lewis, Free Air, Cosimo Classics, page 66