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hole † 

• 1 n. See 1961 quote.

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

  • 1834-43  (1955)  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.

• 2 n. North, Obs. a stretch of water free from ice.

  • 1850  (1852)  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.