HOLE, noun 1. A hollow place or cavity in any solid body, of any shape or dimensions, natural or artificial. It may differ from a rent or fissure in being wider. A cell; a den; a cave or cavern in the earth; an excavation in a rock or tree; a pit, etc. Isaiah 11:8. Ezekiel 8:7. Nahum 2. Matthew 8:20. 2. A perforation; an aperture; an opening in or through a solid body, left in the work or made by an instrument. Jehoida took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it. 2 Kings 12:9. 3. A mean habitation; a narrow or dark lodging. 4. An opening or means of escape; a subterfuge; in the vulgar phrase, he has a hole to creep out at. Arm-hole, the arm-pit; the cavity under the shoulder of a person. 1. An opening in a garment for the arm. HOLE, verb intransitive To go into a hole HOLE, verb transitive To cut, dig or make a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. 1. To drive into a bag, as in billiards.
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