hollow

• A great rectangular hollow had been delved from an outflanking spur of the moor, and within the hollow was the Roman Bath referred to in bitter tones by Merrys. —  Tom Brown’s Body - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 22: 1949
• But relief at escaping the hollow was a fleeting thing. —  Wit'ch's Storm
• “The only ones who will see the light of the candle will be those at whom the hollow is aimed,” she explained. —  IMMORTALIS
• But when they reached the edge they saw that their alarm was needless, for Jack had dropped into a sitting position upon the soft ashes, and was gazing down into a great cup-like depression about half-a-mile across, and gradually dipping down till the centre of the hollow was about five hundred feet below the top Not much to see, Ned," said Jack as the man joined him. —  Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy
• Thinking it best to make a wide detour, so as to face the wind, I circled till I felt the breeze was favorable to my enterprise, and then cautiously approached the hollow were the dead horse lay. —  The Last of the Plainsmen

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