The former and more correct spelling of whole.
To cut, dig, or make a hole or holes in: as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars; to hole a flute.
To drive into a hole.
In mining: To connect two workings with each other.
In coal-mining, to undercut the coal, or pick away the lower part of the seam, so that that which is above can be thrown down by means of wedges or by the use of powder.
To go into a hole, as an animal into its den or burrow.
Specifically, to retire into a den or burrow for the winter: said of a hibernating animal.
In billiards, to win by pocketing. Some billiard games of mixed pockets and caroms require the final shot to be a carom; others insist upon a pocket.
A simplified (and the earlier) spelling of whole.
Hollow; deep; concave.
Hollow; hungry.
noun.
A hollow place or cavity in a solid body; a perforation, orifice, aperture, pit, rent, or crevice.
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The excavated habitation of certain wild animals, as the fox, the badger, etc.; a burrow.
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Hence A narrow, dark, or obscure lodging or place; especially, an obscure lodging for one in hiding, or a secret room for a prohibited or disreputable business, as for counterfeiting, unlicensed printing, liquor-selling, etc.: as, a rum-hole.
noun.
The hollow interior of a ship: now called, by corruption, the hold. See hold.
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An indentation in the coast; a cove, or small harbor, as Holmes's Hole in Martha's Vineyard, and Wood's Hole on the coast opposite; a narrow passage or waterway between two islands, as Robinson's Hole, in the same region.
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A level grassy area surrounded by mountains: a word formerly much in use and still current in the northern parts of the Rocky Mountains.
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A puzzling situation; a scrape; a fix.
noun.
Synonyms Opening, cave, cavity, excavation, hollow.
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Den, kennel, hovel.