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Vole

noun

Any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows. Synonym: field mouse.

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... friends, whose tender hearts Have better learned to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps: 'The Dean is dead: (Pray, what is trumps?) Then, Lord have mercy on his soul! (Ladies, I'll venture for the vole.) Six Deans, they say, must bear the pall: (I wish I knew what king to call.) Madam, your husband will attend The funeral of so good a friend.' 'No, madam, 'tis a shocking sight; And he's engaged to-morrow night: My Lady Club will take it ill, If he should fail her at quadrille. ...

— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

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Words linked to "Vole" : red-backed mouse, phenacomys, Microtus pennsylvaticus, wood rat, pine mouse, Arvicola amphibius, grasshopper mouse, Pitymys pinetorum, water rat, meadow mouse, Microtus ochrogaster, Microtus richardsoni, wood-rat