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Pigeonhole   Listen
noun
Pigeonhole  n.  A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pigeonhole" Quotes from Famous Books



... shock was beginning to subside a little by now, and he sat down to bring something like order out of the confusion on the desk. At first, he had thought that the sheaf of evidence letters which gave him the strangle-hold upon Gantry and the lawbreakers had been left in a pigeonhole of the desk. Then he remembered having given it to Collins ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

... had ever dreamed would be ours. My Italian was improving from day to day. I could handle mortar easily and naturally and point a joint as well as my instructor. I could build a true square pier of any size from one brick to twenty. I could make a square or pigeonhole corner or lay out a brick footing. And I was proud of ...
— One Way Out - A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America • William Carleton



Words linked to "Pigeonhole" :   stamp, stereotype, set, lay, sort out, put, sort, assort, cubbyhole, place, pigeonholing, class, classify, compartment, separate



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