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Words with 堀

Kanji 堀, meaning ditch, appears in 27 Japanese vocabulary entries.

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ほり

canal

外壕

そとぼり

outer moat (of a castle)

内壕

うちぼり

inner moat

釣堀

つりぼり

fish pond (artificially stocked)

堀江

ほりえ

canal

堀川

ほりかわ

canal

堀り出し物

ほりだしもの

(lucky) find

堀り返す

ほりかえす

to rake up (e.g. old scandal)

堀端

ほりばた

side of a moat

芋堀り

いもほり

potato field (furrows)

芋堀り

いもほり

digging for sweet potatoes (esp. as an outing)

横堀

よこぼり

moat

外堀を埋める

そとぼりをうめる

to remove obstacles in the way of one's objective

空堀

からぼり

dry moat

穴堀梟

あなほりふくろう

burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)

小堀流

こぼりりゅう

kobori

深堀

ふかぼり

deepening relations

竪堀

たてぼり

ascending trench or pathway cut into a naturally-occurring slope

置いてけぼり

おいてけぼり

leaving someone behind

堀りつくす

ほりつくす

to work out (a mine)

堀り鼠

ほりねずみ

pocket gopher

堀り抜く

ほりぬく

to dig through

堀散らす

ほりちらす

to dig up messily

堀切

ほりきり

man-made water channel (e.g. round a castle)

用水堀

ようすいぼり

irrigation ditch