Definition of Hole

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Definition of Hole

Hole

Whole.

A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.

To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.

To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

To go or get into a hole.

A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf.

At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.

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Hole Quotations

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. Kennedy

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.
Tiger Woods

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
Plautus

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. Bush

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
Fred Allen

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. Johnson

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Josh Billings

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pressure is when you play for five dollars a hole with only two in your pocket.
Lee Trevino

Hole Translations

hole in Afrikaans is lek, sloot, gat
hole in Danish is hul
hole in Dutch is groef, gracht, kuil, groeve, greppel
hole in German is Markierung, Loch
hole in Italian is fossa
hole in Latin is foramen, cavus
hole in Norwegian is hull
hole in Portuguese is furo
hole in Spanish is agujero, zanja, hornacho

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