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Definition of Rabbit warren
1. Noun. An overcrowded residential area.
2. Noun. A series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits.
Definition of Rabbit warren
1. Noun. An underground system of interconnected tunnels occupied by rabbits. ¹
2. Noun. A confusing environment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbit Warren
Literary usage of Rabbit warren
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"I cannot otherwise account for the appellatives given to sharpers, and the terms
of cheatery being so familiarly drawn from a rabbit-warren ; not that even ..."
2. Ruling Cases by Irving Browne, Leonard Augustus Jones, James Tower Keen, Edward Manson, John Melville Gould (1898)
"... premises thereby demised (except the rabbit-warren and sheep- walk), in a
regular and due course of husbandry according to the custom of the country. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant: With an Appendix Containing by Robert Hunter, William Guthrie (1876)
"... not entitled to the value of the fallow over and above the allowance for
ploughing.2 A tenant at entry paid for the whole live stock in a rabbit warren. ..."
4. The Revised Reports by Robert Campbell, Frederick Pollock, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1894)
"... plough, sow, manure, and cultivate the said premises thereby demised (except
the rabbit-warren and sheep-walk) in a regular and due course of husbandry, ..."
5. Curiosities of Literature: And the Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1846)
"In the former scene of sharping they derived their canf terms from a rabbit-warren,
but in (he present, their allusions partly relate to an aviary, ..."
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