[MOLE sb.2]
† 1. The water-vole, Arvicola amphibius. Obs.
1770. Pennant, Zool., IV. 84. I imagine it [the water shrew-mouse] is the same which the inhabitants of Sutherland name the water mole.
2. Austral. The ornithorhynchus or duck-bill.
1815. in Oxley, Jrnls. Two Exped. N. S. Wales (1820), 367. In the reaches, or pools of the Campbell River, the very curious animal called the water mole (ornithorhynchus paradoxus), is seen in great numbers.
1885. Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888), V. 11. The Water-mole or Duck-mole of the Australian colonists.
