A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”)
A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
A generally untidy place.
An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
A bell-mouth spillway: a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
A military trench.
A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.