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Webster 1913 Edition
Hole
Hole
(hōl)
, Adj.
Whole.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Hole
(hōl)
, Noun.
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. Shakespeare
The blind walls
Were full of chinks and
Were full of chinks and
holes
. Tennyson.
The priest took a chest, and bored a
hole
in the lid. 2 Kings xii. 9.
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.
Dryden.
Syn. – 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.” Dickens.
– Hole board
(Fancy Weaving)
, a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; – called also
compass board
.1.
To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in;
as, to
. hole
a post for the insertion of rails or barsChapman.
2.
To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
Hole
,Verb.
I.
To go or get into a hole.
B. Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hole
HOLE
, n.1.
A hollow place or cavity in any solid body, of any shape or dimensions, natural or artificial. It may differ from a rent or fissure in being wider. A cell; a den; a cave or cavern in the earth; an excavation in a rock or tree; a pit, &c. Is.11. Ezek.8. Nah.2. Matt.8.
2.
A perforation; an aperture; an opening in or through a solid body, left in the work or made by an instrument. Jehoida took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it. 2 Kings 12.
3.
A mean habitation; a narrow or dark lodging.4.
An opening or means of escape; a subterfuge; in the vulgar phrase, he has a hole to creep out at.Arm-hole, the arm-pit; the cavity under the shoulder of a person.
1.
An opening in a garment for the arm.HOLE
,Verb.
I.
HOLE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To drive into a bag, as in billiards.