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cradle-hole
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a cradle-shaped hole left in the ground when a large tree is overthrown by a gale, carrying the soil from the hole in its roots.
See: cradle-hill
Quotations
1829
Ploughing prevented by the water standing on the land, in what are termed cradle-holes, formed by trees being blown up by the roots, and are found only on a wet, or a loose soil.
1925
It was no easy matter to make rail-fences "horse-high and hog-tight," when they had to be built over cradle-holes. . . .