Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cave.
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Examples
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They had come up from the great, dark earth-hole, where they lived, and now they crouched upon the rocks to spin their thread.
Opera Stories from Wagner Florence Akin
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Archæological Institute, was found in 1848 in Needwood Forest, lying on the top of some fresh mould which had been turned up by a fox, in excavating for himself a new earth-hole.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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