Noun

(head)

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* 1707 , , "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical , part three, page 184:

At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]

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Noun

(en noun)

The burrow in the ground where a fox lives.

(military) A small pit dug into the ground as a shelter for protection against enemy fire.

* 1962 : Hoxie Neale Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: 1880–1920: Gods of a Changing Poetry (Columbia University Press), page 378:

The statement made during the Second World War that “there are no atheists in foxholes'” is absurd. ' Foxholes teem with atheists—who, to be sure, frequently infringe the Third Commandment in their desperation.