hole†

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1n.

See 1961 quote.

See: park(def. 2),pothole(def. 5)

Quotations

1834-43

his valley is called Jackson hole. . . .

1961

They trapped the beaver streams of the mountain "holes" and "parks," the open, partially wooded valleys of the Rockies.

2n. — North, Obs.

a stretch of water free from ice.

1850

With the "Pioneer's" sharp bow, we broke through the first of these barriers, and carried the "Resolute" into a "hole of water," as it is called.

1852

One immense floe had toggled across the channel on Hamilton Island, and a little hole of water had made under lee of it to the W.N.W.