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cowhole
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
one of a series of depressions and ridges caused by impacted snow on a winter road, a source of much jolting and bouncing to passengers in sleighs, carioles, etc.
See: cahot
Quotations
1864
At every crossing, where the snow was trodden down hard, there would be a dip, which gradually became deeper and deeper, forming what was called a "cahuat" (called by the boys cowholes), and which gave the occupants of sleighs a good jolt. . . .