pigeonhole

Word:pigeonhole

Context Sentence: All student mail will be put into the student pigeonholes located opposite the lift.

Source: CELTE and CTCCS studies //Handbook 2006-2008//

Definition: [countable] one of a set of small open boxes fixed to a wall. You leave letters, messages etc for particular people in the boxes. eg:Hence Buckshot LeFonque, a group devoted to the idea of making pigeonholes a thing of the past. She got up and crossed to a little antique rosewood desk with pigeonholes and tiny drawers along the top. Surely the people shoved in and out of these pigeonholes have not themselves changed so vastly and so often.

Memonic : the hole of pigeon