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muskrat house

• n. the living quarters of a muskrat, built on islands in and around a muskrat swamp.

  See also: living-house  lodge (def. 1b)  muskrat cabin  muskrat swamp  pushup  rat-house  wash ((n.)) (def. 2)  

  • 1871  (1872)  I had observed some musk-rat houses at one end of the lake. . . .
  • 1929  (1930)  The sloughs near by swarmed with muskrat houses, or dams, as the settlers call them--domes of reeds and flags rising several feet above the ice.
  • 1958  Around their banks and on little islands were muskrat houses.