HOLE

a. n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Whole. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2.
n.

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. The holes where eyes should be. Shak. The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes. Tennyson. The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid. 2 Kings xii. 9.

3.
n.

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. Dryden. The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. Luke ix. 58.

4.
v.

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

5.
v.

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

6.
v.

To go or get into a hole. B. Jonson.

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