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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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spot ·  crack ·  cut ·  box ·  ring ·  chamber ·  pit ·  tunnel ·  rock ·  space ·  open ·  line

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hole:   holes ·  holed
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hol; see kel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. I. a. from Middle English hol (rare), from Anglo-Saxon hol = OFries. hol = Old Dutch D. hol = Middle Low German hol, Low German holl = Old High German Middle High German hol, German hohl = Icelandic holr = Danish hul (Swedish hål-ig), adjective, hollow (an adjective replaced in English by hollow, which in Anglo-Saxon is exclusively a noun, Anglo-Saxon holh, holg, a hole, a hollow, apparently a derivative (with unusual formative -h) of the adjective hol), from the verb represented by Anglo-Saxon helan (past participle holen), Middle English helen, English heal, hide, cover, = Latin celare, hide, conceal: see heal, hell, hell, hollow, holk, etc., and conceal, cell, etc. The Greek κοῑλος, hollow (see cælo-), goes with L. cavus (see cave, cage); it is not connected with hole or hollow. II. n. Early modern English also hoole, houle, howle; from Middle English hole, hool, hol, from Anglo-Saxon hol, a hole, hollow, cavity, cave, den, = OFries. hol = Old Dutch D. hol = Middle Low German hol, Low German holl = Old High German Middle High German hol = Icelandic hol = Swedish hål = Danish hul, a hole; orig. neuter of adjective; Anglo-Saxon also hola, masculine, = Old High German holi, Middle High German hüle, German höhle = Icelandic hola, feminine, = Danish hule = Swedish håla, a hole, a cave, cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) hulundi, a hollow, a cave; from the adjective See I.
  2. from Middle English holen, holien, from Anglo-Saxon holian, hollow out, make hollow, dig a hole (= Dutch uit-holen = German höhlen = Icelandic hola, make hollow, = Danish ud-hule = Gothic (Moesogothic) us-hulōn, hollow out, excavate), from hol, adjective, hollow, hol, n., a hole: see hole, a. and n., and cf. hollow, v.
 

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