posthole

• “With his own hands he tossed what was left of her head into the posthole he'd excavated in the woods six or eight weeks earlier.”

  Fictionaut: Penultimate Vampirekiller for 2012

• “Or else the truth: Sorry but zero interest in another man, they are too much work and too self-centered and they think you exist for nothing but their own personal convenience, and they can't tell a woman from a rubber blimp or their dick from a posthole digger and they guzzle up the scotch like there's no tomorrow, and they never clean out the ashes after the cozy fireside evenings.”

  The Guardian: Margaret Atwood | Underbrush Man

• “Too much trouble to unload the posthole digger, roll of barbed wire, and assorted tools cluttered in the truck bed.”

  Simon & Schuster: No Mercy

• “I fetch the brand-new posthole digger and ask the kids if they want to play in the dirt with me.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

• “Once convinced that the posthole digger is finally picking up sand, I sit cross-legged at the bottom of my spider hole.”

  Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT

• “The posthole digger slides in and out of the softened ground with ease.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Madonnas of Echo Park

• “They sunk them posts four foot deep with posthole diggers.”

  Simon & Schuster: Come Again No More

• “  By digging under Bluestone 34 and exposing the posthole or foundation for it, they hope to find bone or other organic material underneath that can be similarly dated -- at B.C.”

  Newsweek: Secrets of the Circle

• “Three of us – Magen, Jossalyn, and Theresa – found large pieces of glass in their posthole features.”

  2007 Field Report 3 « Interactive Dig Johnson's Island – Unlocking a Civil War Prison

• “They're using posthole diggers, they're stringing barbed wire and they're saying, we want our border to be secured.”

  CNN Transcript May 4, 2006

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