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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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"Hole" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Mr. Balfour, seated on opposite sides of the table, apparently found relaxation in reviewing their political careers and especially their old-time political battles. They would laughingly recall occasions when, in American parlance, they had put each other "in a hole"; the exigencies of war had now made these two men colleagues in the same government, but the twenty years preceding 1914 they had spent in political antagonism. Page's guests on this occasion learned much political history of the early twentieth century, and the mutual ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick
... sliding curtain, that returned the light of his candle, and hid all without. 'Twas idle trying to peer through it, but as he did, the palm of a hand was suddenly applied to the glass on the outside, and began briskly to rub off the snow, as if to open a peep-hole for distinct inspection. ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... with tassels. However, I was not able to discover that it is the custom for even the most ignorant inhabitants to do anything in the nature of poojah before these figures any longer, though probably usual enough before CROMWELL, with the iron sides, ordered all such baubles to be removed. In a hole of the upper wall of the Town Hall there is a life-size statuary of SHAKSPEARE, with legs complete, showing that he was not actually deficient in such extremities and a mere gifted Torso: and it is presumable that ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
... a fairy of his own—this is partly a fairy tale and partly a Bible story, 'cause it is about Good Friday; and I don't know if it's very pious to mix up the two, but I have to end up the story—and this fairy came to help him, and she opened a hole in the ground and let the man fall right through to Africa, where the cannibals got him and eat him up; but he was so bad he disagreed with them, so even after he was killed he was a nuisance. Then the President gave the boy ...
— Bessie Bradford's Prize • Joanna H. Mathews
... any boats. I have never found any boat that hasn't a detestable habit of bobbing round. The Channel is hated: and no one who has much to do with it is surprised at the projects for bridging it and for boring a hole under it; though I have scarcely ever met an Englishman who wants either done,—he does not desire any more facile communication with the French than now exists. The traditional hatred may not be so strong as it was, but it is hard to say on which side is the most ignorance ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner


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