hole

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A bolt-hole or bolting-hole is a hole by which to bolt or escape.

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  1. noun A hollowed place in something solid; a cavity or pit: dug a hole in the ground with a shovel.
  2. noun An opening or perforation: a hole in the clouds; had a hole in the elbow of my sweater.
  3. noun Sports An opening in a defensive formation, such as the area of a baseball infield between two adjacent fielders.

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  • A bolt-hole or bolting-hole is a hole by which to bolt or escape. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3
  • Black hole is intriguing, mysterious, evoking the thrill of cosmic infinity, whereas zwart gat is just a black hole -- if you see what I mean. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3
  • I could see the hole, only one today, the non-Euclidian space having collapsed, and next to the hole was the chair and the bottle of Orange Crush. —  Asimov's Science Fiction
  • Certainly more than one hill had vanished, and maybe some farmers 'fields, for the hole was at least ten times as wide as it was deep. —  The Great Hunt
  • I was then transferred to what they call the hole, which is not exactly segregation. —  CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2003
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hol; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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/ (hōl)/
ahd pronounces "hole"
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