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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Hole

Hole (hole)
a.(h1913 webster dictionaryl)
Hole
  1. Whole.
    [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hole

Hole (hole)
n.
Hole
  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. Shak.

    The blind walls
    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.

    The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Luke ix. 58.

    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.


Hole

Hole (hole)
v. t.(?)
Hole
[AS. holian. See Hole, n.]
  1. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
    Chapman.
  2. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

Hole

Hole (hole)
v. i.
Hole
  1. To go or get into a hole.
    B. Jonson.













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