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 Hole n.
 1. 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.
 2. 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.
    The foxes have holes, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.   --Luke ix. 58.
 3. Games (a) 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. (b) Fives At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
 Syn: -- Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell.
 Hole and corner, clandestine, underhand. [Colloq.] “The wretched trickery of hole and corner buffery.” --Dickens.
 Hole board Fancy Weaving, a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; -- called also compass board.