Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rut or slight depression in a road; specifically, such a depression formed in snow which covers a road.
- noun A spot in a road from which the frost is melting.
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Examples
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No, no, four ducks, Haukebut as for the rest of what you have been chatteringlast spring the dikemaster general and I, after we had breakfasted together at my house, drove by your weeds and your cradle-hole and yet couldnt see anything.
Paras. 100–199 1917
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You hear, "One, two, three, _haul_," all day long, as she is worked out of one ice "cradle-hole" over a hummock into another.
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact Edward Everett Hale 1865
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