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Hole   /hoʊl/   Listen
noun
Hole  n.  
1.
A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. "The holes where eyes should be." "The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes." "The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid."
2.
An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. "The foxes have holes,... but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head."
3.
(Games)
(a)
A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf.
(b)
(Fives) At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
Synonyms: Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell.
Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. (Colloq.) "The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery."
Hole board (Fancy Weaving), a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; called also compass board.


verb
Hole  v. t.  
1.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
2.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.


Hole  v. i.  To go or get into a hole.


adjective
Hole  adj.  Whole. (Obs.)





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... butchers' stalls, some ponderous iron object fell with a heavy thud just in front of him, sank into the earth, and disappeared. At the same moment, two young people came out of a neighbouring house and ran across the street to the newly-made hole; they were Conrad Schmidt and Dollie. Close at their heels followed a man in a dusty coat, the ...
— The Young Carpenters of Freiberg - A Tale of the Thirty Years' War • Anonymous
... that man's inventive genius was at work among farm implements. Worlidge mentions[347] an engine for setting corn, invented by Gabriel Plat, made of two boards bored with wide holes 4 in. apart, set in a frame, with a funnel to each hole. It was fitted with iron pins 5 in. long to 'play up and down', and dibble holes into which the corn was to go from the funnels. This machine was so intricate and clumsy that Worlidge found no use for it. However, he recommends another instrument which certainly seems to anticipate ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler
... legs, or by a throbbing of their temples. With me, it is my sword that warns me. Well, it told me of nothing this morning. But, stay a moment—look here, it has just fallen, of its own accord, into the last hole of the belt. Do you know what that is ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... (A, B), as in Fig. 78, punch a small hole through the bottom of each, and run a string or wire (C) from the hole of one cup to that of the other, and secure it at both ends so it may be drawn taut. Now, by talking into the cup (A) the bottom of it will vibrate to and fro, as shown by the dotted ...
— Electricity for Boys • J. S. Zerbe
... troughs, small troughs, and moulds, to the sugar-bush two miles from the house. They first built huts for the kettles and for themselves; fixed the store trough and cut a supply of fuel for the fires. They next tapped the maple-trees on the south side, with an auger of an inch and a half. Into this hole a hollow spile was driven. Under each spile a trough was placed. As soon as the sun grew warm the sap began to flow and drop into the troughs. The girls and boys had soon work enough to empty the troughs into a large cask on the sleigh. This, when full, was carried to the boiling-sheds and ...
— Taking Tales - Instructive and Entertaining Reading • W.H.G. Kingston


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