rock-hole

But the fright of that brought me to again, and my elbow caught in a rock-hole; and so I managed to start again, with the help of more humility.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

English-speaking residents of that continent spell it euro: “Wallaby, euro and dingo tracks,” wrote I. L. Idriess in a 1933 novel, “showed how popular this cool rock-hole was.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

English-speaking residents of that continent spell it euro: “Wallaby, euro and dingo tracks,” wrote I. L. Idriess in a 1933 novel, “showed how popular this cool rock-hole was.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

English-speaking residents of that continent spell it euro: “Wallaby, euro and dingo tracks,” wrote I. L. Idriess in a 1933 novel, “showed how popular this cool rock-hole was.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

English-speaking residents of that continent spell it euro: “Wallaby, euro and dingo tracks,” wrote I. L. Idriess in a 1933 novel, “showed how popular this cool rock-hole was.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

After digging out the sand and hauling it in buckets to the surface we had a rock-hole nearly conical in shape, twenty-five feet deep, twenty feet by fifteen at the mouth, narrowing in on all sides to three feet in diameter at the bottom.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

All day we followed the same two tracks, from rock-hole to rock-hole -- all were dry as the sandstone in which Nature had placed them.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

Added to this must be the 30 gallons we got from the small rock-hole -- that is, 132 gallons in all.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

Eight miles of sandhills on the 20th took us, under the native's guidance, to another rock-hole -- full to the brim -- its water protected from the sun by an overhanging ledge of rock.

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

From the hill above the rock-hole, a prominent bare range of red rock can be seen to the South bearing 172 degrees to the highest point (these are probably the Warman Rocks of Tietkens).

Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885